Sucking my siphon

[puravida]

Doh! Just read Klaus's post !!!

 

[pittsy]

i have 2 cheap removable plastic taps and also a pipe clip stopper , after sucking syphon i close clip stopper and remove 1st tap and replace with 2nd tap my mouth never touches beer or tube (although a put some in a glass to have a sneaky try ) easy and cheap

 

[oldstout]

Ha! Funny thread!
All you need to do is 'pre load' your syphon tube by filling it with water or star-San prior to siphoning. Have a bowl or pint glass on the floor next to your destination bucket or keg. Keep your thumb over either end until you are ready to syphon then run it into the spare bowl until you can see when the beer starts to run through and quickly move the end to where you want it.

Basically if your tube is full already then there is no need to suck etc. The syphon process will just start on its own providing you have a height difference in the vessels.

Yeh but have you steeped your thumb in Domestos first? :rofl: :mrgreen:

 

[shocker]

Ha! Funny thread!
All you need to do is 'pre load' your syphon tube by filling it with water or star-San prior to siphoning. Have a bowl or pint glass on the floor next to your destination bucket or keg. Keep your thumb over either end until you are ready to syphon then run it into the spare bowl until you can see when the beer starts to run through and quickly move the end to where you want it.

Basically if your tube is full already then there is no need to suck etc. The syphon process will just start on its own providing you have a height difference in the vessels.

Yeh but have you steeped your thumb in Domestos first? :rofl: :mrgreen:

You dont use your everyday thumb for syphoning do you ? :nono: :nono: :nono: I have a specially constructed Blichmann prosthetic brewing thumb that I have autoclaved and bagged for this purpose....doesnt everyone ?

 

[artiums_enteri]

There is a lot of bacteria that lives in my mouth that I don't want coming in contact with my beer. My method is as follows:

I pressurize my conical(s) with C02 and use the pressure to push the beer into a freshly purged keg. Completely closed transfer. When I was using carboys I would attach the hood to the carboy and run a C02 line from my tank to one inlet in the hood and the racking cane in the second. Using the C02 I push the beer from the carboy to the keg. This ensures no oxygen is introduced to the beer and the keg is purged prior to beer being pushed into it.

 

[pittsy]

There is a lot of bacteria that lives in my mouth that I don't want coming in contact with my beer. My method is as follows:

I pressurize my conical(s) with C02 and use the pressure to push the beer into a freshly purged keg. Completely closed transfer. When I was using carboys I would attach the hood to the carboy and run a C02 line from my tank to one inlet in the hood and the racking cane in the second. Using the C02 I push the beer from the carboy to the keg. This ensures no oxygen is introduced to the beer and the keg is purged prior to beer being pushed into it.

you do know this is home brew and not brewery lab right ? :grin:

 

[evanvine]

you do know this is home brew and not brewery lab right ? :grin:

Well said pittsy, someone showing a bit of sense at last! :clap:

 

[calumscott]

There is a lot of bacteria that lives in my mouth that I don't want coming in contact with my beer.

That's very true, the little buggers get their share before the beer gets into me...

...oh, that's not what you meant is it... :whistle:

 

[artiums_enteri]

Yes I know that, but in the US most craft brewers start out home brewers, and use the knowledge and expertise gained from home brewing to start a craft brewery.

Science is a key part of this hobby. I for one am not just trying to make "beer," but rather great tasting, commercial quality, award winning beer.

If you listen to the brewing network, read zymurgy, or BYO you will see the hobby revolves around the science of brewing. Whether that be the study of enzymatic activity at certain degrees in the malt or the behavior of sachramycies at specific temps, it should all be paid close attention to.

 

[shocker]

So ....what are you all saying ? I had my thumb sawed off for NOTHING ? :hmm:

 

[pittsy]

i've got a sticky plaster if you like ..... nope forget that the dogs ate it

 

[Vindiv8]

Or just fit a tap to the bottom of your buckets!

 

[artiums_enteri]

The buckets with spigots always scared me. Buckets frighten me enough as it is, but the microbes that hide in and around the spigot are just about impossible to kill.

 

[Swift Pint]

artiums_enteri I agree with you on buckets with taps. Mostly because I'm too lazy to clean them properly so it would end in disaster!!



TBH I think I might switch to sucking, because all the waving the racking cane and syphone around over the sink to fill it up with water is probably a greater risk than sucking!

 

[StrangeBrew]

I use a jiggle syphon. They're so easy to use .. just dip it into the beer and 'jiggle' up and down a few times and the flow starts and it continues without any further jiggling. Easy to clean to as it's only a shaped piece of copper tube a couple of inches long with a glass marble inside fitted to the end of a normal piece of plastic syphon tube.

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PS as the plastic tube that came on mine was of unknown origin I did replace it with a length of food grade tubing to be sure ... (probably not necessary just a precaution).

 

[evanvine]

The buckets with spigots always scared me. Buckets frighten me enough as it is, but the microbes that hide in and around the spigot are just about impossible to kill.

I think you are scheduled to die young, so you may as well just suck your sy[phom!

 

[artiums_enteri]

It's not a question of microbes that could possibly hurt me physically; nothing can live in 3% or higher alcohol that is potentially dangerous to humans. I was referring to wild yeast and rogue bugs that could possibly infect the beer creating off flavors, high flocculation, or low attenuation.

 

[pittsy]

where you from Arti , you from America ?

 

[Mark1964]

wouldnt worry too much ive been spitting ale into the fv from day 1 with no effects whatsoever

 

[pittsy]

wouldnt worry too much ive been spitting ale into the fv from day 1 with no effects whatsoever

I for 1 ain't worried for what don't kill you makes you stronger :rofl: