Just-a-Guy
Well-Known Member
I thought I was being clever, I bought an extra spigot (two actually, I did this to two buckets), drilled a hole and installed it on my fermenting bucket. One at about the 4 1/2 gal level, the other a little lower. Brewed up an IPA (True Brew kit) om 2/11 and put it in the bucket.
I've been taking out small samples about once a week by pouring from the spigot into the hydrometer tube. It has seemed awfully cloudy, and the SG won't get below 1.020. Odd.
Today I decided to rack it to a secondary (5 gal carboy). After I finished that, I went to clean the bucket, and found that the inside area of the spigot inside the bucket had a ton of crud (trub, sediment, whatever it's called) in it. No wonder the samples were cloudy (and heavy). Hm. Took me a couple of minutes with the spray nozzle to get it all out (then of course a full cleaning).
Pic attached. Was this just a dumb idea, or is there a fix?
TIA,
Mark
I've been taking out small samples about once a week by pouring from the spigot into the hydrometer tube. It has seemed awfully cloudy, and the SG won't get below 1.020. Odd.
Today I decided to rack it to a secondary (5 gal carboy). After I finished that, I went to clean the bucket, and found that the inside area of the spigot inside the bucket had a ton of crud (trub, sediment, whatever it's called) in it. No wonder the samples were cloudy (and heavy). Hm. Took me a couple of minutes with the spray nozzle to get it all out (then of course a full cleaning).
Pic attached. Was this just a dumb idea, or is there a fix?
TIA,
Mark