Sorting through all the noise

[flars]

I assume you shouldn't transfer from the primary fermenter with a spigot because sediment you are trying to leave behind settles to the bottom of the bucket.

You can use the spigot. A very sure way of not having the sediment to or over the level of the spigot, is to have the fermentor tilted away from the spigot during fermentation. Some sediment may settle into the spigot opening, but not very much.
You can watch the transfer and gradually tilt the fermentor back, towards level, to get all the beer out.

 

[user 163849]

I assume you shouldn't transfer from the primary fermenter with a spigot because sediment you are trying to leave behind settles to the bottom of the bucket.

The spigot is installed high enough to avoid that problem so far with my Siphonless Fermenters (I have only done full extract and I use a hop spider). I do sometimes get a small amount of sediment in my first hydrometer sample but after taking two such samples I get practically nothing but beer when I transfer to the bottling bucket. If the sediment were to get too high it would be simple enough to resort to using a siphon. My wife makes wine and I sometimes help so I am quite familiar with both the racking cane and auto siphon. it is much like the difference between drawing well water with a bucket or turning on a faucet.

The spigot on my bottling bucket is installed as low as possible. If I were to use it for fermenting there is a good chance that using the spigot to transfer would not be a good choice.

 

[unionrdr]

I have the spigots on the fermenters higher than the one on the bottling bucket. I also pour the chilled wort through a fine mesh strainer that gets the gunk out & aerates the wort. So I usually wind up with about 3/8" of yeast & trub at the bottom.

 

[user 163849]

Transfered my stout to the bottling bucket today via spigot.