Syphoning ready to bottle lager

[Simonw22]

Hi, i have my first brew on the go as we speak, still a few days away from bottling but was after some advise.

I have the beer fermenting in a plastic 30 litre bucket with a tap attached at bottom. I also have a little bottler stick to attach to the tap to make life easier.

What i need to know is do i need to syphon brew into another bottling bucket first or can i go straight from the bucket the brew is in?

I am brewing a 'gone with the wheat' brand czech pilsner as i am coeliac. (Wheat free).

 

[Gnomebrewer]

If you bulk prime (mix the entire amount of priming sugar with all the beer) you need to rack to a bottling bucket.
If you put sugar in each bottle individually, you can bottle straight from the fermenter. I prefer this way because there is less chance of oxidation, but it is bit more fiddly and messy.

 

[Simonw22]

Thanks for reply. The reason i ask is ive taken a few samples from the tap and see quite alot of sediment in the glass which i dont want in the bottles.

I am going to use coopers carbination drops for the priming rather than pour in sugar.

 

[brewkinger]

Thoughts....

Not a good idea to ferment in a bucket with a spigot at the bottom.
This type of bucket is usually for bottling purposes only.
Opening that tap repeatedly to get samples as you have been doing can give an infection an opportunity to get in the beer.
Usually you rack INTO a bottling bucket from a fermenter and all the yeast and trub at the bottom does not make it into the bottling bucket and therefore not into the bottles.


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[Gnomebrewer]

Thanks for reply. The reason i ask is ive taken a few samples from the tap and see quite alot of sediment in the glass which i dont want in the bottles.

I am going to use coopers carbination drops for the priming rather than pour in sugar.

Depending on the beer and yeast, you often end up with a bit of extra sediment in the first and last bottles. It all settles in the bottles though. The sediment coming through in your sample is from what settles around the spitot. Once it clears away (less than a bottles worth), the beer runs clear.