Optimum Hose Sizes and Widths

[bboyeruga]

Hello All,

I got two of the very basic starter kits (one wine and one beer) from Midwest Supplies during their recent Father's day sale and I intend to use both for beer. However, they both came with roughly 4' of what looks like 3/8" wide hoses.

I know these are neither long enough or probably wide enough to make my brew day as efficient as possible, so I was wondering if the HBT family could provide some advice in this area.

Thanks!

 

[diS]

What is your system and where do you use hoses on brewday?
If you are extract brewer I suppose that hoses are needed only when siphoning wort to fermentor so 3/8" is not that bad (couple of minutes more to siphon), but if you use hoses in other processes like circulating I suggest to get larger ID, like 1/2".

 

[unionrdr]

I have one fermenter with a barrel tap,which needs 5/8" ID hose for racking to the bottling bucket or occassional secondary. The rest have the red & white Italian spigots with a recess on the spout that takes 3/8" ID tubing. I have a fermenter stand (old large printer stand),so 4 feet is plenty for that height. Like from a fermenter on a table to the bottling bucket on the floor height-wise. I think that's what they went with when they cut it. Even bottling wands & auto siphons use 3/8" ID tubing. It seems to be the most common size.