I feel like a caveman when racking to secondary...

[Frodo]

That IS ghetto... no need for that if you don't have an autosiphon though... filling it with liquid to start it will work as will using a turkey baster to start suction. I wouldn't put my mouth on it at all.

You've never done that? In a pinch you do what you gotta do...

 

[de3isit]

I use a carboy top with a stainless steel racking cane and attach my CO2 to the smaller tube on the carboy top with a barb fitting. Using about 5 PSI I can rack it directly to a keg or through a filter if need be. Super easy and quick. I never secondary either just keg condition and carb.

 

[BrewerBear]

You guys that have spigots on your fermentation bucket.....

You guys don't have issues with infections or crap getting in the spigots and stuff, or them leaking at all?

What about pulling out junk from the bottom?? My buckets and carboys are always full of crap in them, and I even whirlpool and rack with a siphon, or pour through a strainer into the buckets.

You can take a spigot apart and clean it,same as on a bottling bucket.

 

[Glynn]

if you have a spigot on a primary how do you keep it from getting in you secondary or bottling bucket

 

[m1k3]

Just have to give a +1 to fermenters with spigots.

Mine are from William's Brewing. You don't mount them all the way to the bottom like a bottling bucket.

They sell a plastic part for the inside that acts like a pick up tube (INVERT TUBE BACKNUT Item #: E47).

Never had an infection. (I use StarSan) I changed out the sigots after one year just for insurance but I kept the invert tube backnuts.

BTW- I did buy a glass carboy and an auto-siphon but after one use I "loaned" them to a friend, one year ago.