Hey guys in a couple days I will be ready to bottle my first batch. A problem I ran into is that I also made some wine and now have no extra buckets. When I bottle can I rack into the stainless steel pot then siphon to bottle?
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First time bottling predicament.
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As long as your sanitation is sound I do not see a problem.
Siphoning into bottles will be very hard to get the fill levels right.. Could be a nightmare.. Bottling buckets are pretty cheap Id say definitely just order one with a spigot and hook your tube to that and use the bottling wand... Bottling is tedious as it is and it would be even less fun with a siphon.
monkeymootj
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Honestly, if you have a bottle filler, hose and auto siphon I don't see the problem. Never done it myself but I don't see why it wouldn't work
Ok I thought by your original post you were siphoning into bottles without a bottle filler.. That sounded like a nightmare haha...only thing about hooking the filler up to the siphon tube is the way the siphon works continuously is by having a continuous flow.. You won't have a continuous flow in between filling bottles so I'm not sure it will work
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I use this setup and it works fine. I rack to a corney keg for aging. Then bottle directly from the keg with an bottle filler attached to my auto-siphon. Never an issue.
jmcm_brew said:
As long as you don't bleed air into the end of the filler (and that's essentially the point of the filler) the siphon will continue. It's like pinching a piece of tubing that's running a siphon; when you let go, the liquid continues to flow.
DrWill said:
I gotcha.. Makes sense.. I think I will still stick to my bottling bucket when I bottle.. I try to keg everything because bottling is my LEAST favorite part of the process.. Although making labels is fun!
jmcm_brew said:
I am right with you. I bottle from the keg, which allows me to force carbonate and only bottle what I want in bottles.
Of course, if the OP just puts a ball valve on his kettle, he's got a lovely stainless bottling bucket.
DrWill said:I am right with you. I bottle from the keg, which allows me to force carbonate and only bottle what I want in bottles. Of course, if the OP just puts a ball valve on his kettle, he's got a lovely stainless bottling bucket.
Yep.. Do you use a beergun or turn the pressure down and pour into bottles? I have yet to try bottling from a keg.. Usually just fill a growler and go on my way if I take it somewhere... I have thought about bottling from it before for gifts just haven't tried it... Usually will bottle a few with the carb tabs in the bottle and keg the rest if it's a beer I want to give out... Although bottling from keg would be much more convenient
jmcm_brew said:
Got a Blichmann beergun a while back. It took some tweaking but now I've got it so I can singlehandedly bottle half a keg with very little waste and no difficulty. I've never had any success using the carb tabs but I'm told there's a new version coming out soon.
