Primary in a bottling bucket and straight to bottles?

[cannman]

Did a primary fermentation in a bottling bucket with no secondary. Time to bottle, but can I just hook up my bottling hose and go to it or should I transfer to another bottling bucket first to avoid trub? It's an Irish stout and I can't see the bottom (mini mash).

Thanks!

 

[Double_D]

It would be best for you to transfer to another vessel to separate your beer from the trub. That way, you will have less sediment in the bottom of the bottle.

 

[boscobeans]

The spigots in some buckets are high enough to draw from above the trub.

Open you spigot ( wide open ) and draw a few ounces into a pot. There will almost always be some trub in the inner part of the spigot no matter how high it is. After you draw out the first sample see if clear beer follows the first sample ( just crack the spigot a little at this point ). If it's clear you can bottle. Just be sure not to move the bucket around and you should be fine. You have to prime each bottle one at a time this way.

If you are still getting trub...Transfer it into another vessel for bottling.

bosco

 

[motleybrews]

Yea the only issue with this is priming sugar. You can't dump it in with all the trub and yeast. So you'd either have to rack to another vessel, or prime each bottle. I'm not a fan of carb tabs, but you gotta do whatcha gotta do