Oh man!!! You don't have to do that! Use a santized funnel, strainer and 2 quart measuring cup to dip in the brew kettle (after it is cooled) into the fermenter. Have someone agitating the strainer to catch the hops. Dump the hops into the sink or garbage bag when it builds up. Siphoning is ONLY used to transfer the beer into a secondary fermenter or a bottling bucket. Enjoy your daughter while you can! They grow up too fast!
hops and other solids, then sparge what's in the funnel, wait for it to drain (10-30 sec), discard it, and if there is wort left, repeat until all of it is in your fermenter. Some essential oils will be trapped in your hops (if using whole hop flowers, that is) and can only be extracted through pouring warm water over them. If you're using pellets, I'm not sure if this is so important. I've never used pellets but I live in Oregon and hops are usually abundant and reasonable here.
If you're not sparging, it's basically just the act of pouring warm water over whatever solid materials you've boiled/steeped to get every last bit out of it before you discard it. If you're syphoning out the liquid and leaving solids behind right from the get-go, you may be leavin some goodness behind! Usually after the hour wort boil, my bro holds a funnel like your daughter was, with a strainer inside it. We pour the wort into the funnel until it's about brim-full with >>>
Is your strainer a metal bowl-shape, or some kind of straining bag? A strainer is supposed to get "clogged" with sediment (i.e. hops) but wet hops and the like should still allow liquid to get through. You'll also want to make sure you're sparging your gains and your hops. When the strainer gets clogged with hops, you want to pour warm water over them and let that liquid fall through into your wort/fermenter. If you need to pour half at a time and sparge twice, do that...continued next>>>
Why syphon? If you're using whole hops I can only assume this might be a way of filtering out the hops, but I've always poured the pot right into the funnel, with a strainer of course to keep the hops out of the primary. Curious...
The mesh is so fine on my funnel strainer that if too much sediment collects, it clogs and nothing gets through. Syphoning helps keep a lot of the crud in the brewpot and out of the strainer. I'd love any suggestions on how to pour without (1) clogging the strainer or (2) getting a ton of sediment in the fermenter.
Oh man!!! You don't have to do that! Use a santized funnel, strainer and 2 quart measuring cup to dip in the brew kettle (after it is cooled) into the fermenter. Have someone agitating the strainer to catch the hops. Dump the hops into the sink or garbage bag when it builds up. Siphoning is ONLY used to transfer the beer into a secondary fermenter or a bottling bucket. Enjoy your daughter while you can! They grow up too fast!
jldrdotcom 2 years ago
hops and other solids, then sparge what's in the funnel, wait for it to drain (10-30 sec), discard it, and if there is wort left, repeat until all of it is in your fermenter. Some essential oils will be trapped in your hops (if using whole hop flowers, that is) and can only be extracted through pouring warm water over them. If you're using pellets, I'm not sure if this is so important. I've never used pellets but I live in Oregon and hops are usually abundant and reasonable here.
sb50ct 4 years ago
If you're not sparging, it's basically just the act of pouring warm water over whatever solid materials you've boiled/steeped to get every last bit out of it before you discard it. If you're syphoning out the liquid and leaving solids behind right from the get-go, you may be leavin some goodness behind! Usually after the hour wort boil, my bro holds a funnel like your daughter was, with a strainer inside it. We pour the wort into the funnel until it's about brim-full with >>>
sb50ct 4 years ago
Is your strainer a metal bowl-shape, or some kind of straining bag? A strainer is supposed to get "clogged" with sediment (i.e. hops) but wet hops and the like should still allow liquid to get through. You'll also want to make sure you're sparging your gains and your hops. When the strainer gets clogged with hops, you want to pour warm water over them and let that liquid fall through into your wort/fermenter. If you need to pour half at a time and sparge twice, do that...continued next>>>
sb50ct 4 years ago
Why syphon? If you're using whole hops I can only assume this might be a way of filtering out the hops, but I've always poured the pot right into the funnel, with a strainer of course to keep the hops out of the primary. Curious...
sb50ct 4 years ago
The mesh is so fine on my funnel strainer that if too much sediment collects, it clogs and nothing gets through. Syphoning helps keep a lot of the crud in the brewpot and out of the strainer. I'd love any suggestions on how to pour without (1) clogging the strainer or (2) getting a ton of sediment in the fermenter.
ttokar 4 years ago
I use the same funnel and it clogs too easily.
bluemystic7501 4 years ago