It won't bottle

[irishpride42]

So I tried to bottle the peach brandy and I cannot even fill one pint full! I am guessing its clogged but how else do I get it out? Should I pour and strain the entire bucket into another bucket and then bottle from there? I am afraid if I do that though I will lose some.

HELP!

 

[Yooper]

NO! Don't pour and strain- you're aerate the heck out of it!

What do you mean, it won't bottle? What equipment are you using, and what exactly is clogged?

 

[irishpride42]

I am using a brew bucket with a spicket at the bottom about 1.5"-2" up from the bottom and then using just some tubing and a pressured bottle filler from the LHBS

 

[Yooper]

Ok, well, that "brew bucket" is your bottling bucket.

Do you have a racking cane? It looks like this:
http://www.northernbrewer.com/siphon.html
(about 1/2 way down).

You use the racking cane to rack to a sanitized bottling bucket after fermentation is finished.

 

[Yooper]

Here's some more "good stuff" on wine making: http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/basics.asp

 

[irishpride42]

No I don't the guy at the LHBS said I didn't need one that I could use the same as I bottled my beer.

 

[Yooper]

Well, you certainly can use the same items. But, you have to have a way to rack the beer and/or wine into the bottling bucket.

 

[Tusch]

So you fermented in your bottling bucket? Do you have another bucket?

I would suggest you clean and sanitize another bucket. Then rack your brew into that. Clean and sanitize your now free bottling bucket, and then rack back into this. That way you will have rack off of all the lees, and there won't be much of anything to clog the spigot.

 

[BigKahuna]

No I don't the guy at the LHBS said I didn't need one that I could use the same as I bottled my beer.

I REEEEEEELllllyyyy Want to start a thread of the best of the worst advice given at an LHBS.

 

[Arneba28]

Kahuna just start it...Everyone will have a bit to add

 

[irishpride42]

Thanks for all the advice! Yooper helped me out a whole lot so I think I have it figured out now! Thanks again Yooper!

 

[mrhead]

I'm definitely no expert on wine brewing, working the kinks outta my first bath now, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and ask a silly question...since you fermented in your bottling bucket, you've never racked it, and you're bottling it, does that mean you had lees pouring into your bottles? If so you may want to trash those bottles, or filter them, or give them to a neighbor....

 

[LakeGrove]

Is your source bucket higher than your destination? There is no gravity, the earth sucks!