Homebrew Beer, Primay to secondary fermenter transfer

A view of the beer after my beer has been transferred from the primary fermentation bucket to the secondary. Left behind a lot of trub and sediment in the primary.

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Howto & Style

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• Homebrew
• beer
• fermeter
• primary
• transfer
• secondary

[graemeislord]

Alson Dragon, I almost always siphon to secondary as my fermenters don't have taps, but I always wondered, you will be left with allot of crud a the bottom of the fermenter after fermentation has haulted, so in that respect how on Earth is it possible to transfer it through the tap at the bottom? Ive always pondered that

[TheDragonHelix]

there is about an inch of undrained fluid on the bottom. For this I just tilt the bucket to get the beer out. Theres a benifit to the undrained inch, theres a little sediment that stays in the bucket.

[james92y]

@WarwickE36 .... Welp, not my video, But I would like to respond to your comment.. If you rack from primary into secondary like you're supposed to ( i.e. WHEN you're supposed to ) .. then fermenting will not be done and c02 will fill the head space fairly quickly, now head space on a wine batch that you've added sorbate and all to stop fermentation, will oxidize, but not beer that hasn't finished fermenting. W/ that said, rack into anything you want as long as its still creating co2.

[WarwickE36]

Way too big secondary. All that oxygen at the top can make for an oxidized beer i.e tastes like cardboard. Also I would never ferment primary in a bottling bucket, that's just lazy. Not to hate, but if you're going to do a how to video it should be done right.

5 gallon batch should by siphoned into a 5 gallon glass carboy with as little o2 at the top as possible.

[julianmclean]

very helpful clip. Thanks!

[yuichituba]

I brew my own beer, but when you poked around at the leftover, I went "ewwwww" like a little school girl, LOL. That was some crazy leftover, man.

[TrandomnesstwO]

Yo.

[graemeislord]

There are not too many risks with plastic sb5oct. I, and the majority of people I know use plastic. I think glass is risky enough, particularly when racking etc when you have to lift the damn thing, not allot of grip, also, they have been known to split on occassion. In regards to plastic, there is the risk of chips inside the fermenter thus leading to dirt and bacteria gettig in to them, just sanatize well. I use a homebrewing sanatizing solution, you can get it from any homebrew shop

[KE5HOB]

Do you have problems with leaking because of the spigot? I have heard people say the pressure from the fermenting causes the spigot to leak occassionally.

[sb50ct]

How long have you been brewing using plastic?  I'm curious why plastic and not glass considering the additional risks... also, what do you use to sanitize? Thanks for posting...