best transfer method?

[oldbloke]

I'm doing a 1 pint feasibility study/experiment, which is using 2 500ml PETs as the primary fermenting vessel.
Just wondering what the best option is for transfer to conditioning vessel.
Syphon? Strain?

When it's all over I'll write it up.

 

[Cussword]

If you strain you will be adding air to whatever you are using, syphoning doesn't :thumb:

 

[oldbloke]

Yeh, normally I'd always siphon, but the quantities are so small here that after some's gone in my mouth starting the syphon off and I've avoided stirring up the trub, there might not be much left!
Just wondered if there was some particular technique used for PETs - never done a primary ferment in one before.

 

[orange]

Would it work if you syphoned the beer upwards as much as you could. Turn the tap off and then lower the syphon tube lower than the bottle. Then open the tap again. You my need more than one pair of hands. Hope that makes sense. I may try it myself to see if it works. :

 

[oldbloke]

It might. Last drought I did something like that to get the bathwater out to the garden.
The mass of the vessels I'll be emptying is so small I'll need to clamp them up somehow anyway.
A BFO pipette would be ideal, actually. But for a one-off gig I'm not going looking for one.

 

[evanvine]

Fish tank air line!!

 

[oldbloke]

In the end I used a turkey baster as a pipette.
Careful as I could be but still stirred up the trub a bit: it's lighter than normal trub.
I'll give the stuff a week in bottle, but the sneaktaste says very thin, lacking flavour, but in the general area of beer.