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Bottling From A Spigot...
Hello everyone, I've spent much time reading everyone's posts and questions. I finally decided that I had a question worth registering for;
If you have a bottling bucket configured with a spigot, could you, if careful enough, rack to bottles straight from it? Bottle tilting? Or, could you attach food grade, sanitized hose to the spigot directly and rack that way?
Thanks for any insight...
Larry
That's the way I've been doing it for quite awhile now. Works pretty good, at least a hell of a lot better than trying to use a racking cane. I have to be careful to avoid over foaming sometimes but a little foam is actually good. If the foam fills to the top of the bottle and you cap it that way there is less room for oxygen in your bottle which could possibly lead to off flavors due to oxidization. I've thought about adding a length of tubing to the spigot but have had no problems bottling directly from the spigot.
Thanks Andrew, I've heard others say the same. That will help out a lot. Thanks. I live in southwest Florida and there isn't a local home brew shop to run over to to pick up stuff from so on a limited "hobby" budget, I will have to make due with some "work arounds" until the funds are replenished.
Larry
I was told last weekend to use a hose. since air is the enemy at that point.
Now I say hose, I should say a hose that will fit your spigot.
I was also told there is a hose for bottling that has, ummm, like a floating ball valve,(if I'm saying that right)
that will stop the flow after it floats up to a certain point, sounds like a real pain to clean though.
Marv, what you are talking about (Ithink) is a bottling wand. It has a spring valve in the bottom, so when you push down beer flows out and when you lift it up it stops the flow of beer into the bottle. its nice because you can fill the bottle to the very top and when you remove the wand it leave the perfect amount of head space. Not too hard to clean. just like you would your siphon and hoses. At least that what it sounds like to me that you are talking about.
Cheers
That could be, he didn't want to take the time to look for it.
So I didn't get to see it.
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