Got myself an auto siphon for the bottling stage, seemed to be working grand if a bit pernickety. Sanitised it and the bottles etc, prepared the sugar water etc. boring stuff done.
As soon as I started using it to siphon to the bottling bucket...disaster. It wouldn't start, the main canister of the auto siphon kept filling up rather than the tube bit! Retried loads of times, no luck. So much beer would splash out of the siphon chamber over everywhere, I was afraid of oxygenating/contaminating it.
Thought I figured out the problem piece, stuck it back in, gave it a good few pumps before I realised it was just pumping air into the wort, unsettling the trub! Oh ****!
Took the siphon out and realised it had fallen to pieces in the wort, ah ****! Panicked and siphoned with the mouth sucking trick (I know) into the bottling bucket with the sugar water in there.
Trub was massive after the unsettling, lost a couple of litres, oxygenated, over carbed and potentially contaminated the beer but sure, look it...it's all a learning experience.
As soon as I started using it to siphon to the bottling bucket...disaster. It wouldn't start, the main canister of the auto siphon kept filling up rather than the tube bit! Retried loads of times, no luck. So much beer would splash out of the siphon chamber over everywhere, I was afraid of oxygenating/contaminating it.
Thought I figured out the problem piece, stuck it back in, gave it a good few pumps before I realised it was just pumping air into the wort, unsettling the trub! Oh ****!
Took the siphon out and realised it had fallen to pieces in the wort, ah ****! Panicked and siphoned with the mouth sucking trick (I know) into the bottling bucket with the sugar water in there.
Trub was massive after the unsettling, lost a couple of litres, oxygenated, over carbed and potentially contaminated the beer but sure, look it...it's all a learning experience.