Siphon or just pour?

Do I need to siphon the wort from the brew pot to the carboy/fermenter or can I just turn this thing over and pour it through a big ol funnel and screen? or it just doesn't matter.

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MarkMogs
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Pouring is fine. I usually run it through a big screen strainer as I do to catch to really coarse solids that may be in the wort. Pouring also helps to aerate the primary to oxygenate it (though additional oxygenation is needed as well).

good luck

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jrprice

Make sure when you are siphoning that you don't use your mouth to begin the siphoning process. You want to pour the wort through a sieve into the primary fermenter.

Doug

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cc0112453

The only thing I would add is to be sure to sanitize the strainer. If you've used hop bags, I would remove them before chilling the wort. You shouldn't then have a lot of particles to strain out. You may not really need a strainer, as particles will settle out anyway as fermentation progresses.

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msclvr

Pouring is fione...just make sure ther wort is below about 80F before you move it.

--------->Denny

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Denny Conn

If you do not use your mouth to siphon how do you proceed?

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Daniel

Fill the hose and racking cane with water. Put the racking cane in the full vessel and the hose in the empty one, at a lower level, and as the water leaves the hose it creates a siphon.

Michael Herrenbruck Drag> If you do not use your mouth to siphon how do you proceed?

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DragonTail281

Hi DragonTail281, I am not following you. Could be the terminology, I am new to this hobby and English is not my primary language. What I understand is that: - I currently have the wort into a bucket which has a tap at the bottom. I have to transfer it today. - I have a flexible small diameter hose about 5 feet long, - a rigid tube 26 inches long with a kind of a hook - a cardboy

Now, to get the wort to go from the bucket to the carboy You suggest not to use the mouth, I am 100% in agreement but I don't get you procedure. I see water getting into either the bucket or the carboy, nothing else.

Would you be kind enough to explain?

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Daniel

Instead of sucking on the siphon tube to fill it, start off with it filled with water. Blocking the siphon tube with a clean thumb, you should be able to start the siphon process of. Have the water siphon out of the tube into a spare jar. Once the beer starts coming through you are away...

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PieOPah

I'll try. Imagine you have your bucket of wort on a table-top and the carboy on the floor. One end of the hose-full-of-water is in the bucket of wort and the other is in the top of the carboy and plugged with the end of your finger. You take your finger off of the end of the hose and water pours out of the hose into the carboy. The other end of the hose is in the wort, so the weight of the falling water pulls wort up into the hose. That wort then flows down through the hose into the carboy. The process continues until you run out of wort.

Or just pour it from the bucket. There's no reason not to pour it. The siphon hose is for transferring the fermented wort to secondary or to bottles.

Karl S.

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Karl S.

Since you have a tap in the bucket, just put the hose on and put the other end in the carboy. Just put the bucket on the counter and the carboy on the floor, gravity will do the rest. When bottling time comes you will need to use a siphon to get the beer out of the carboy and into the bottling bucket. By putting water into the hose, and racking cane if you have one, it will create a siphon as the water leaves and the beer replaces it in the hose. Just make sure that the empty vessel is at a lower level than the full one. Full on the counter and empty on the floor. Fill the hose, connected to the racking cane (if using) and put your finger over the end of the hose. Put the end with the cane, or the other end of the hose if not using a cane, in the full vessel on the counter. Put the end, with your finger on, in the empty one on the floor. When you take your finger off, gravity will cause the water to come out of the hose and into the empty vessel. This will create a vacuum in the hose and start to suck the beer into it creating a siphon. The small amount of water mixed in in the exchange won't have any major ill effects on your beer. I did it this way for about 5 or 6 batches until I got an Auto-siphon racking cane which uses a "pump" action to get the siphon started. Hope that helps a little more. Cheers, Michael Herrenbruck DragonTail Ale Drunken Bee Mead

Daniel wrote:

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DragonTail281

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:48:20 GMT, " DragonTail281" said in alt.beer.home-brewing:

That and the Carbonator are two pretty neat gadgets.

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Al Klein

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Hydraulic Jack

"If you do not use your mouth to siphon how do you proceed?"

There's two ways I know of and use. One is to still use your mouth to siphon, but to attach an additional "false" length of tube with a connector, and remove it quickly - before the wort gets to it. Just to be safe, I take a quick gargle with vodka before, to kill any mouth germs. The other way is to fill the hose that's connected to your racking cane with some sterilized water ( I use a small funnel that I attach to the tubing - or you could pre-fill it then attach it...) - Don't worry if some water gets washed into the beer. It's sterilized. Anyway, fill the hose, then throw the hose sharply down into a bucket or container of some sort. This SHOULD get the siphon started. If it does, give it a few moments to clear out the water, the slow the flow with a pinch and then stick it into the fermenter. You might have to try this a few times. And always make sure the container you are siphoning to is lower then the other!

Cheers!

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pezoids
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N. Falcimaigne

i refuse to answer on the grounds, i might have to make you happy.

Reply to
dug88

thank you i like you. although sucking on a siphon tube is the highlight to some peoples life. i use a pan to catch the starting flow. and i tend to use BOILED water. faster and quicker, and less chance of flow back into the tank.

here in edmonton the water is quite hard so all my water, is boiled before making beer. it does seem to affect the final tate.

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dug88

pouring, aka (means same as) aerating a beer to be bottled is not really a good idea. infection is almost guaranteed. hey daniel, thanx for joining doing fine on english anytime ya got a problem and wanna state a comment in native language, do it. someone here knows the words value, and will update it. ideas are great in any language. i am here in canada i can translate, with time, anything too many friends, from too many nations, but what the hell, we cope well.

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dug88

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