ealu-scop
Active Member
I have siphoning problems. I either have a crap auto-siphon or I'm crap at siphoning. Either way, it's the most stressful part of brewing for me and has already ruined one of my ciders.
Most of my brewing has been with mead/cider and this weekend I'm going to brew my first beer.
So I was wondering if I could work around the auto-siphon by fermenting in a bottling bucket, and--using the spigot and gravity--siphon the beer into another bottling bucket for actual bottling.
Purchasing an extra bottling bucket is even cheaper than buying a new auto-siphon...
The only thing I can think of that will be any extra work is to just make sure the spigot stays sanitized (I figure I'll sanitize it from the get go, wrap a plastic bag round it during fermenting, then sanitize again before siphoning), which is probably easier than sanitizing the auto siphon anyway...
Any thoughts about this process? Think it'll work? Any blindspot problems I'm missing?
Most of my brewing has been with mead/cider and this weekend I'm going to brew my first beer.
So I was wondering if I could work around the auto-siphon by fermenting in a bottling bucket, and--using the spigot and gravity--siphon the beer into another bottling bucket for actual bottling.
Purchasing an extra bottling bucket is even cheaper than buying a new auto-siphon...
The only thing I can think of that will be any extra work is to just make sure the spigot stays sanitized (I figure I'll sanitize it from the get go, wrap a plastic bag round it during fermenting, then sanitize again before siphoning), which is probably easier than sanitizing the auto siphon anyway...
Any thoughts about this process? Think it'll work? Any blindspot problems I'm missing?