In an interesting weekend I tried a couple of new beers, set
myself up for 1 gallon batches of beer straight from my kitchen, not only so if
these first solo batches suck but once I get going to experiment with some recipes.
No Riding and I am getting anxious on that front.
Anyway I also was able to
move my very first All Grain batch from Primary to secondary fermentation. This
my friends was an adventure. I want to preface this by saying I should have
pulled the head out of my ass and bought an Auto Siphon (which will be
purchased this week) so I went to YouTube and found a video on Racking your
beer with a racking cane. Simple right? Looked simple enough.
(now there were not a lot of pictures during this craziness actually this was the first and the last as I tried to save the beer)
So I got some
sterilized water submerged the correct end of the tubing. After a bunch of
water on the floor and my hands soaked I got the siphon going then in a panic
(as I did not have a clamp but had my finger over the tube) I had my daughter
get the fermenter up high so I could get it going but realized as I stuck my
hand in the beer (side not if this beer comes out great I am sticking my hand
in more often, side not 2 my hand and arm were sanitized so relax) after switching that up and getting the beer
going to get the water out I placed the tubing into the Carboy and it was
underway, But oh my troubles were not over. At a certain point my tube got an
air bubble and I could not get the rest into the carboy the plus is we had
about 5 and a half gallons anyway so I had plenty in the carboy. Now as I went
to put the bung in the hole (giggle, Bung hole) it was slick due to all the San
Star both on the Bung and in the carboy every time I would put that and the
airlock in it would pop out, just like it was taunting me. I had to completely
dry both and keep pressing it in until it stayed. Finally with water, beer and
paper towels all over the place I could clean up. I placed a shirt over the Glass carboy put a thermometer
on it and left it…Next week (with an auto siphon) we will take 5 separate
gallon jugs and further ferment with some different things in each (Oak Chips,
dark chocolate, etc…) Lesson learned but wish it was a lesson learned on a
cheap Grain Bill not a Big Imperial beer. Either way I am drinking it…
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