Was bottling my Breaking Barley IPA last night and ran into some difficulties: I had limited space in my bottling bucket for the entire batch so I opted to put half the batch in first, batch prime and bottle and repeat for the remainder left in the fermenter. The first lot went fine but when I went to syphon the remaining 7 liters the syphon stopped working after about a liter or two had been transferred to the bottling bucket. The syphon has (somehow) been bent recently so it's kinda impossible to pump it properly to get it going. Planning on picking up a new one today and hoping that I can finish the job with that. Left the beer in the fermenter and sealed it up and that. My question is - will I be able to finish it with the new syphon or is the 7 remaining liters of delicious nectar now lost?? ??? :(
Quote from: ColmOM on March 03, 2014, 11:33:32 AM
My question is - will I be able to finish it with the new syphon or is the 7 remaining liters of delicious nectar now lost?? ??? :(
Can't see why not. Another few days of secondary wont do any harm.
Unless you've primed that batch already ...
I presume the remaining beer has the priming sugar mixed in. The best you can do is keep it cold to stop fermentation. If you have a bottle of co2 maybe try and squirt some in to the head space of the bucket to keep air from contacting the beer. :)
Is the inner tube of the auto-syphon damaged? If not, you can pull the inner tube out of the auto-syphon and use it like a regular syphon and racking cane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6wnVFsGdv0
Yup unfortunately the inner and outer tube are both bent. There's about one-two liters in the bottling bucket with the priming solution for 7 liters worth of beer. It's ina cold enough room so hopefully it'll be ok. Just really didn't want any of it to go to waste as so far it's tasting like my best effort yet!