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Transfer from Brew Pot to Carboy
I also buy oxygen tanks at Lowe's to aerate my beer. A canister is very cheap and my last one aerated about ten batches before it ran out. Using oxygen tanks has definitely helped with quicker fermentation and unlike a pump it is completely sanitary. As far as dumping wort into a glass carboy they do sell funnels with strainers inside of them which makes it quick and easy to transfer your wort while straining hops and heavy particles.
andrew jensen wrote:
As far as dumping wort into a glass carboy they do sell funnels with strainers inside of them which makes it quick and easy to transfer your wort while straining hops and heavy particles.
I've found that those funnels get clogged real easily. In fact, just yesterday I was using a regular strainer over a funnel and found that it was clogging up pretty good with a large surface area.
True, they clog very easily.... but I don't mind because I know my wort is being strained of all the crap I don't want in my fermenter!
With just getting brewing again in the last few months i didnt use a stainer, forgot / didnt have one, but now purchased a larger funnel and strainer, hope to see an improvment in quality and clarity.
webby wrote:
andrew jensen wrote:
As far as dumping wort into a glass carboy they do sell funnels with strainers inside of them which makes it quick and easy to transfer your wort while straining hops and heavy particles.
I've found that those funnels get clogged real easily. In fact, just yesterday I was using a regular strainer over a funnel and found that it was clogging up pretty good with a large surface area.
I took the strainer out of my funnel. I don't even know where it is. Hazy beer is fine with me. Once you remove it, that funnel will unclog magically.
If you are really worried about hazy beer, try some irish moss in your next boil.
I use buckets so when I'm ready to add my wort to the fermenter, I just pour it really hard.
After the pour I stir it really hard till I get a good foam. That's how I aerate, seems to work okay.
I don't mind a little haze in my brew either. One thing I've learned, when racking, if you don't put your racking Cain down in the trub you can clean up your brew pretty good this way.
We did a brown ale that was very clean when it was finished.
Yeah, I use buckets as well. I siphoned over to my bucket out of the kettle though and what I did was to just hold the outflow end of the siphon hose an inch or so about the top of the bucket and let it fly. This would work in a carboy I would think.
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