Tip for getting beer from fermentaion bin into bottles

[adamjth]

Hi,

I am using a 40litre FV bucket for making wherrys (it doesn't have a tap). The first time I made a brew I used the length of pipe supplied with the bucket to syphon the beer into the bottles. Unfortuately this made alot of mess and for my 2nd brew I am looking to keep the missus happy What other ways do folks round here do this? I am thinking of maybe using the keg as an intermediary vessel and mix the sugar at that stage. That way I can use the tap to pour the beer into the bottles.

any other tips? Please point me to a webpage if this already written up

Adam

[Titch]

i have another FV with a tap on and a bottle buddy i think its called

some call it a bottling stick

rack into this with my sugar solution in for priming and away i go.

[trucker5774]

Yep! A little bottler, bottling stick. Fit a suitable tap to make it easier, or just use the bottler on the end of a syphon tube. They are self opening and closing by pressing them on the bottom of the bottle. Great piece of kit for only a few quid.

[adamjth]

Thanks for tips. Can you post an links where I can get this kit

[Graymee]

www.google.com There ya go!

I used one for my first bottling session last weekend, apart from a few drips ito and old icecream tub it was no fuss at all.

[techtone]

Yep! A little bottler, bottling stick. Fit a suitable tap to make it easier, or just use the bottler on the end of a syphon tube. They are self opening and closing by pressing them on the bottom of the bottle. Great piece of kit for only a few quid.

How does it work with a syphon tube? I use the "suck through my hand" technique to start off the syphon - does the bottling stick not make that difficult?

[Graymee]

If you start your siphon process off as normal and put your thumb over the end. Fold a kink into the pipe a few inches from the bottom and hold it while you push the bottling stick onto the end. When you let go the stick will fill and stay there until you poke it into the bottom of a bottle.
(might be a good idea to check the fit with an empty tube first)
BTW with the stick in the bottle, fill it brim full, when you remove the stick, the ale will be at the perfect level in the bottle.

[Monkeybrew]

The Little Bottler was the best £6.50 I've ever spent

[Simon7]

I put a sugar/boiled water mix into a second FV with a tap on, syphon the beer into this, then attach a Little Bottler to the tap and bottle from there. I've tried a few methods and this is the most mess/stress free IMO

[Gordonmull]

I find the little bottlers too slow to work with so the stick part is gathering dust somewhere. I love the tap that comes with it though because it fits the back end of the little valve that comes with a youngs siphon tube and racking cane perfectly. shove it into the syhoning pipe "backwards" and it works a treat. Syphon tube into the bottom of the bottle and control filling with the tap.

More recently I've also found the racking cane, after sediment trap removal, to be a near perfect fit. You lose a couple of drops but put a basin underneath and there's no mess. Absolute A to the little bottler tap!

[cbucket]

This is what you want. It plugs in the end of a syphon tube.

http://www.colchesterhomebrew.co.uk/col ... Stick.html

[Gordonmull]

honestly cbucket? 5-10mins? If that's the case I want one. whats it like in your experience?

[baccus]

All I do is fold the syphon tube back on itself (ie nip it in half). Make sure you leave enough to reach the bottom of the bottle. Easy. I've got a good knack now so no mess is made.

[cbucket]

Bottling stick is absolutely brilliant. Push it on the bottom of the bottle. When the liquid gets to the top just lift it of the bottom and the flow immediately stops. Lift it out of the bottle and the resulting air gap is the air gap required for secondary fermentation.

On to the next bottle... and ten minutes later all done.

[Gordonmull]

Sounds sweet way different from little bottler which I found took about 30 min to bottle up 30 pints.