Home Brewing Tools : Home-Brewing Auto Siphon

Home beer-brewing auto siphons are used to separate sediment from liquid. Get more information on the auto siphon from a master brewer in this free video on beverage making.

Expert: John Brack
Contact: www.AustinHomebrew.com
Bio: John Brack has been brewing his own beer and wine for more than 15 years, and has been on-staff with Homebrew Supply for more than 11 years.
Filmmaker: MAKE | MEDIA

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[davephotog]

@meboge0 Same here. My connection to the tubing is never airtight, so I end up standing there having to pinch it to make sure no air can sneak in. Beats me why that is. It's very irritating!

[meboge0]

My auto-siphon never goes that smoothly. I don't get it.

[aspacelot]

Haha thanks! Trying to move my first batch ever and couldn't figure out auto siphon, haha!

[altobongo69]

thanks for the video. I wish I would have seen it before I moved my brew. I pumped it too much and got an air bubble in the siphon exposing my beer to oxygen by a rouge air bubble. 

[og5lava]

Yeah, we keep it in sani too right before transfer. I just fill the line, bend top 1 foot ,( let that 1 foot run out, and lock the bottom by vacuum) then put it in carboy with beer, another carboy lower by 3 feet or so, and a cup to run off sani into from bottom part of line. I let sani off in the cup w/ little beer, then put it into second carboy.

By "Cross contamination" I meant better than "opposed to sucking on the end of it. " Which you should really never do.( with beer especially)

[RGH1502]

I feel ya, I still use the clip with the autosiphon. I am lazy and starting a siphon with water or air displacement is just to much work for me...

[andrewt248]

I haven't had an issue with contamination yet. I keep the cane and hose in a 6gal pail full of water/StarSan until I need it, transfer some sanitizer solution out of the pail through the can and hose, and push the sanitizer out with tap water right before I put it in the vessel (boil pot or carboy).

[andrewt248]

I have an auto siphon, too. But, I get a faster transfer rate with the cane. I think it's because the cane leaves more of an opening for air to come in at the mouth of the carboy. Plus, I can use the cane clip to keep the tip up out of the trub and yeast for the first 80% of the transfer.

[og5lava]

And you wont cross contaminate...

[itsgus]

'causing a vacuum' to form? wow thats a nice buzz word but it has nothing to do with the auto siphon.