Hop bag and syphon tube

[Griffin79]

Hi

I'm bottling up tomorrow and have a hops nylon bag to use. I have a rigid syphon tube which goes down into the bottle. Does the bag go over the bottle end or over the end which attatches to the fermentation bucket valve?

Thanks

 

[Graz]

Need more info. I think what you are saying is that your bucket has a tap on the bottom and you plan to draw the beer off using that which isn't actually siphoning, it that right?

 

[Griffin79]

Yes the bucket has a tap and I have a rigid syphon tube which attaches at one end to the tap and goes straight into the bottle at the other. There is a little pressure valve at the bottle end which you push down inside the bottle to release the liquid.

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

You might not need the bag as a filter if the tap sits above the level of the gunk at the bottom of the fermenter.

 

[Bobtheblob]

What you're describing is a "little bottler" wand. What I would do is siphon all the beer carefully into a second bucket using the mesh bag over the end of the siphon tube that sits in the beer. This stops all the crud and hop bits from coming through. Then add priming sugar and give it a big stir, then I would bottle from the second bucket with the "little bottler".

 

[Keruso]

I found the bag gets clogged and stops the siphon working, I found putting one of these in the bucket and the siphon inside worked better
hop spider

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[Neil1987]

What you're describing is a "little bottler" wand. What I would do is siphon all the beer carefully into a second bucket using the mesh bag over the end of the siphon tube that sits in the beer. This stops all the crud and hop bits from coming through. Then add priming sugar and give it a big stir, then I would bottle from the second bucket with the "little bottler".

When you say big stir do you be careful no to splash or just stir away?

 

[Griffin79]

P. S I don't have a second bucket so will be syphoning, using the little bottler, straight into the bottles.

 

[Banbeer]

When you say big stir do you be careful no to splash or just stir away?

No, always stir fermented beer very gently as you don't want to introduce oxygen into the wort

 

[Graz]

P. S I don't have a second bucket so will be syphoning, using the little bottler, straight into the bottles.

I which case there isn't really anywhere to put the filter. If the sediment (yeast + hop debris) has settled below the level of your tap then it will probably be okay.

Personally I prefer to siphon it off with a filter into a dedicated bucket for bottling, like yours with a tap and bottler, so I can batch prime as described above and minimise the amount of crud left.

Gave up on the stupid nylon bags some time ago as the pesky things nearly always want to clog up for me no matter how tight I pull it. Cold crash now and use one of these instead of the sediment trap on the siphon: