From primary to bottling bucket

[ConAcide]

TO go from my primary to my bottling bucket, what would you reccommend? I was just going to siphon it into my bottling bucket (with priming sugar solution already in it), however I've seen a couple of threads where people have talked about just dumping their primary into their bottling bucket.

A couple of things about that seem off to me. First, it seems like the priming sugar wouldn't be evenly dispersed. Secondly, I'd be concerned about getting trub in my bucket. What do you guys recommend?

 

[Psylocide]

Siphon.

No one is dumping their beer into the bottling bucket... no one that knows what they're doing anyway. Great way to introduce a ton of oxygen and ruin it.

 

[MaxStout]

Use an autosiphon or racking cane. Just pouring it in will stir up a bunch of trub.

 

[hunter_le five]

+1

Siphon it. Gently. With as little splashing or roiling as possible.

It's okay to dump from the boil kettle into the primary. That must be what you saw people posting about.
If you dump from the primary into the bottling bucket, you will ruin that beer via oxidation. Nobody in their right mind would do that.

 

[Bearsmith]

+1 on auto siphon. Makes life sooooo much easier.

 

[brew_ny]

dumping from boil kettle to primary = good your yeast likes the oxygen

dumping finished beer from primary to bottling bucket = bad your finished beer does not like oxygen

makes your beer taste like cardboard

all the best

S_M

 

[Lazarusnz]

Interesting post.I too was wondering about how the priming solution mixes with the siphoned beer but it obviously works.I guess we don't stir for the same reason?

 

[Freddyj123]

Interesting post.I too was wondering about how the priming solution mixes with the siphoned beer but it obviously works.I guess we don't stir for the same reason?

After an inch or so of wort was in my BB, I positioned the tube to whirlpool the wort and poured in the dissolved priming sugar. Seemed to work pretty well.

 

[mrgrimm101]

After an inch or so of wort was in my BB, I positioned the tube to whirlpool the wort and poured in the dissolved priming sugar. Seemed to work pretty well.

^This! Start your siphon and curl your hose in the bottling bucket so it flows out and creates a whirlpool. Then add your priming sugar solution (sugar + 2 cups of water, then boiled, then chilled back to about room temperature) to the bottling bucket and let it mix itself with the whirlpool. You can also take a clean and sanitized plastic stirring spoon and GENTLY give it a stir. DO NOT splash or create bubbles at this point..just an easy, gentle stir.

 

[balrog]

^This! Start your siphon and curl your hose in the bottling bucket so it flows out and creates a whirlpool. Then add your priming sugar solution (sugar + 2 cups of water, then boiled, then chilled back to about room temperature) to the bottling bucket and let it mix itself with the whirlpool. You can also take a clean and sanitized stirring spoon and GENTLY give it a stir. DO NOT splash or create bubbles at this point..just an easy, gentle stir.

This. Sanitized long plastic spoon (remember scratches in your plastic bottling bucket from stainless spoons can grow and hide bad things), stir gently, creating no splashy splash.

 

[unionrdr]

My method from early on as well. I use a racking tube from the spigots on my FV's to half way around the bottom of the bottling bucket. This induces a swirl that'll mix the priming solution as it fills up. I boil 2C of spring water a couple minutes, then stir the weighed amount of sugar till it goes clear again. Cover & cool till needed. I use the long plastic Cooper's spoon sanitized to give a few gentle stirs.

 

[Lazarusnz]

Thanks guys. I knew I was missing something! Bottling my forst brew tonight so that's exciting!

 

[DoD_Ales]

Interesting post.I too was wondering about how the priming solution mixes with the siphoned beer but it obviously works.I guess we don't stir for the same reason?

FOlLD in the priming solution, from the bottom to the top, do NOT stir. Think whip cream and chocolate.

 

[DoD_Ales]

Interesting post.I too was wondering about how the priming solution mixes with the siphoned beer but it obviously works.I guess we don't stir for the same reason?

FOLD in the priming solution, from the bottom to the top, do NOT stir. Think whip cream and chocolate.

 

[Yooper]

I don't stir- if you lay the tubing around the bottom of the bucket in a circle, the beer gently swirls as it fills from the bottom and mixes the priming solution just fine. Then, I just lift the bottling bucket to counter height and attach the bottling wand and start bottling. It's easier for me to use a piece of tubing in the spigot to the bottling wand, and fill the bottles on the dishwasher door. It contains any messes, and makes it an easy clean up- just close the door.

 

[unionrdr]

FOLD in the priming solution, from the bottom to the top, do NOT stir. Think whip cream and chocolate.

Good call. I should've put it that way myself. I stir as if folding from bottom to top a few times...when I think of it!

I don't stir- if you lay the tubing around the bottom of the bucket in a circle, the beer gently swirls as it fills from the bottom and mixes the priming solution just fine. Then, I just lift the bottling bucket to counter height and attach the bottling wand and start bottling. It's easier for me to use a piece of tubing in the spigot to the bottling wand, and fill the bottles on the dishwasher door. It contains any messes, and makes it an easy clean up- just close the door.

Most of the time, by that point after all the set up, sanitizing, etc, I just wanna get on with it! So I don't always think to stir. But the swirling action does do the deed fairly well.

 

[KartRacer54]

Originally I just let the swirl take care of mixing but then found the occasional variance in carbonation. May not have had anything to do with just swirling but now I try to always do a gent all stir with sanitized plastic paddle.

 

[Mismost]

I don't stir- if you lay the tubing around the bottom of the bucket in a circle, the beer gently swirls as it fills from the bottom and mixes the priming solution just fine. Then, I just lift the bottling bucket to counter height and attach the bottling wand and start bottling. It's easier for me to use a piece of tubing in the spigot to the bottling wand, and fill the bottles on the dishwasher door. It contains any messes, and makes it an easy clean up- just close the door.

+1 bottling over the open dishwasher doors is one of the best tips ever....much better than using your wife's "favorite" beach towels. Why is it every time I mess something up it was a "favorite" or "my best" according to my wife? Don't you think they stick stuff like that is a special place? She did NOT like like my suggested place....she has a great ability to loose her sense of humor at the oddest times.