Racking method question

[TekelBira]

How do you rack it to secondary carboy from primary carboy without getting any sediments into secondary? I can leave most of it behind but still get some amount transfered into the secondary using a siphon starter. I keep the tip off the bottom but as I get closer to the bottom, cannot avoid sucking some sediment up too.



P.S. I shared my first batch with some friends this past weekend at a party. It was a hit amongst the beer lovers. Got compliments to the extend that "the best homebrew they tasted ever". It was very satisfying even if they were fibbing.

 

[cweston]

RDWHAHB.

When you rack FROM the secondary on bottling/kegging day, you're again going to leave the majority of the unwanted trub at the bottom of the carboy. That's really the main point of doing a secondary. Suppose you left 90% of the trub behind. Next time you siphon, if you also leave 90% behind, that means you're siphoning 10% of the original 10% of trub: that's only 1%.

If your beer seems especially trubby when you set out to bottle, or if you dry-hopped with whole hops or other floaty stuff (fruit or whatever), try clamping a small, fine-mesh hops bag over the outlet end of your siphon (the end that goes into the bottle bucket.)

It'll slow down your siphon a bit, but it'll also catch any solids that get sucked into the siphon hose. Be sure to sanitize the bag and clamp, of course.

EDIT: I meant to add; congrats on that first batch. It really is amazing how easy it is to brew beer that is better than 95% of what you can buy in the store.

 

[brewhead]

since i've been doing a lot of dry hopping lately what i do is rack thru a strainer/funnel - it might work for that sediment as well. the seiv is very fine