poll - how do you transfer your beer?

[crazyjake19]

I ferment mostly in 5 gallon PET carboys, and pressure transfer out of them into sanitized and purged corny kegs. I use one of those orange caps to apply CO2 to the carboy at 1psi, stainless racking cane to 3/8" vinyl tubing to a ball lock liquid disconnect, filling keg from the bottom-up.

On certain occasions I'll ferment in a corny keg and transfer out of them via a floating dip tube.

 

[fluketamer]

i stopped transferring at this point and just serve out of fermenter with floating diptube. when the level gets down to less then a half ill sometimes jump it to a minikeg to free up kegerator space and/or free up fermenters.

 

[AkTom]

I use a vacuum pump. Works great.

 

[odie]

I don't transfer anymore. I am fermenting in the serving keg. clean (micro screened) wort goes in the keg with floating dip tube, yeast is pitched, it's fermented, then served from same keg.

 

[eric19312]

Same setup as @bailey mountain brewer I do add an inline filter when transferring heavy dry hopped beers. Thik it is this one from vacmotion:

 

[odie]

My last fifty ish batches I fermented and serve from the same keg, no transfer. I am still surprised more people don't do this.

The two flaws I see are you can't really harvest the yeast and you have less options for dry hopping but worth it for my brewing. Sue me I think transferring beer is a pain and this method is as low oxygen as it gets

two flaws???

1. harvest yeast...yes you can. very easy. If you start with clean and clear (filtered, screened or settled) wort...meaning NO trub...then you will have a nice clean yeast cake after fermentation. A clean yeast harvest is done when you tap the first pint (standard dip tube), or you tap the last pint (floating dip tube). Option, dump fresh wort into "dirty" keg and re-ferment.

2. dry hopping. do it while yeast is active or at the beginning. Any oxygen introduced will be consumed by the active yeast and/or spunded out.

 

[bkboiler]

I bottle straight from the fermenter. One fermenter I have used a spigot, one is a glass carboy (so I use an auto siphon).
In either case, I use a bottling wand with a spring, so it holds the siphon perfectly.
I dose a simple syrup to each bottle with a medicine syringe to carbonate them.
I've gotten pretty good at placing the cap during the foam, but I don't have enough hands to clamp it down in that moment.

 

[MaxStout]

Rack to bottling bucket, then fill bottles with a bottling wand.