It’s time for me to bottle my first home brew and realized I don’t have a siphon :/ instead of waiting, has anyone ever had success with a siphon pump from wal mart? I have a bottling wand just totally spaced getting the siphon! Wasn’t sure if anyones used these before? Or am I just crazy haha
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Zambezi Special
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It will work. Not sure if it is food safe though.
Why don't you want to use your bottling wand? Just curious...
Why don't you want to use your bottling wand? Just curious...
I didn't read the OP as not wanting to use the wand. Two tools for two purposes. Siphon to pull the beer from the fermenter. Wand to fill the bottle.
One could bypass the siphon and use a wand directly on the spout of the fermenter if it's equipped as such.
One could also create their own siphon with plain ol' tubing. Suck on it to prime or fill with Star San. Practice this with a bucket of water, not your precious first batch of beer.
Zambezi Special
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May have understood it wrong.
You can bottle direct if the fermenter has a spigot that fits the bittling wand.
You can dose sugar per bottle.
You can bottle direct if the fermenter has a spigot that fits the bittling wand.
You can dose sugar per bottle.
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If your beer is in a priming pot then just submerge your sanitized hose in it and let all the air out of the end you hold just above the beer. Then cap the end with your sanitized finger.... probably should be gloved and sanitized finger and get it in position and just let if flow.
You can also just fill it with no-rinse sanitizer or even water you trust and then let it run out into some other container until the beer gets to the end.
Just be sure to keep one end firmly plugged till you have the outflow end lower than the intake. Otherwise that liquid will drain back where you don't want it.
No fancy schmancy gadgets needed.
I'd be a tad worried about the squeeze ball of that thing being a good place for the remaining air in it to mix with your beer and start it on it's path to cardboard tastes.
You can also just fill it with no-rinse sanitizer or even water you trust and then let it run out into some other container until the beer gets to the end.
Just be sure to keep one end firmly plugged till you have the outflow end lower than the intake. Otherwise that liquid will drain back where you don't want it.
No fancy schmancy gadgets needed.
I'd be a tad worried about the squeeze ball of that thing being a good place for the remaining air in it to mix with your beer and start it on it's path to cardboard tastes.
Or just hold off bottling until you can get an auto-siphon.
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I started out years ago using a racking cane, tubing, and a hose clamp to rack into a bottling bucket. Fill the tubing and cane with sanitized water, clamp, keep the clamped end under the bucket level, and put the cane in the fermenter. Open the clamp lower than the fermenter. Bend the hose if you don't have a clamp, like you would to quick stop a garden hose.
But I much prefer an autosiphon and have started pressure transferring lately.
But I much prefer an autosiphon and have started pressure transferring lately.
Instead of buying an auto-siphon, I'd invest in a stainless racking cane. You buy one for life.
They're easy to prime using water or sanitizer.
Train yourself with a bucket of water or sanitizer before committing to transferring beer.
To help you out now, if you have someone around to hold one end of a 3-4' length pre-primed vinyl tubing under the beer in your fermenter, while you hold the other end in a bottling bucket, you're all set. Sanitize everything including hands before touching beer, etc.
They're easy to prime using water or sanitizer.
Train yourself with a bucket of water or sanitizer before committing to transferring beer.
To help you out now, if you have someone around to hold one end of a 3-4' length pre-primed vinyl tubing under the beer in your fermenter, while you hold the other end in a bottling bucket, you're all set. Sanitize everything including hands before touching beer, etc.
The good thing is, its a good time to be looking to pick up a siphon! Last Fifty Finds
Piece of tubing? Just fill it with water to get the siphon going. I did that for the first year of brewing.
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