primary to keg is a bottling bucket necessary?

[beerandguitars]

If I have a spigot on my primary and am skipping secondary, do I need a bottling bucket in between or just pour into the keg which will have forced carbonantion?

 

[gcdowd]

I go straight from primary to keg, works fine. Don't "pour" it in though, rack it with a racking cane

 

[Yooper]

Exactly!

You don't need a bottling bucket (since you're not bottling!) but a siphon from the fermenter to the keg is imperative. I suppose you could try to sanitize the spigot that's been maybe on or near the floor for a couple of weeks, and then try to sanitize some tubing and jam in up in there, and try to avoid the sediment that would have collected in the spigot...........but it's easier to just siphon the beer from the fermenter to the keg. Make sure the tubing is long enough to go all the way to the bottom of the keg, and curl around so that it fills the keg from the bottom without splashing.

NO pouring!!!!!! Ever.

 

[Hammy71]

I haven't used my bottling bucket in years.

 

[gcdowd]

I haven't used my bottling bucket in years.

I actually just use mine to catch my grain when I mill it. Barley crusher fits perfectly on top.

 

[davekippen]

Isnt the bucket with the spigot a bottling bucket? LOL! I think you are fermenting in the bottling bucket

 

[wailingguitar]

I have spigots in ALL my fermenters for this reason. I Clean/sanitize the thing when I clean the ferm and then wrap it tightly with cellophane. When I am ready to use it I give it a quick blast with some iodophor which I keep in a spray mister, attach a sanitized hose and run the beer to a keg. Works great and I have never had an issue with yeast uptake or anything of the sort

 

[davekippen]

Dang that does seem easier than messing with the auto siphon..........

 

[kerant]

Dang that does seem easier than messing with the auto siphon..........

Unless your yeast cake gets over your spigot line _ then you got a problem!

 

[LBussy]

I have spigots in ALL my fermenters for this reason. I Clean/sanitize the thing when I clean the ferm and then wrap it tightly with cellophane. When I am ready to use it I give it a quick blast with some iodophor which I keep in a spray mister, attach a sanitized hose and run the beer to a keg. Works great and I have never had an issue with yeast uptake or anything of the sort

While they are considerably more expensive, I have started using the Better Bottles with the racking adapter and valve. I have a similar regimen to keep it clean. The internal "arm" allows you to get the last bit while keeping it above the trub, and there's no dinking around with starting a siphon. I don't know how many times I've re-stirred up the yeast when I spazz out and drop the cane into the fermenter, or worse, inject/aerate my beer with an auto-siphon.

 

[JABBY]

My loving SWMBO bought me a bottling bucket thinking it was a regular bucket. It was a gift for something a while back and I have always been debating on using it as a straight fermenter. I think I will make a batch in it here shortly.

 

[wailingguitar]

Unless your yeast cake gets over your spigot line _ then you got a problem!

I suppose that is true, but it has never even come close to happening. I use the standard plastic spigot that pretty much every HBS sells. Install it just high enough to easily screw on the nut inside the bucket. EVERY time I have xfered out to keg, I have had to tip the bucket toward the spigot to get the last of the beer. IF it were ever to happen that the yeast level were too high, I could still use a siphon, I just don't foresee that occurring .