I'm Jeremy from F.H. Steinbart Company and
today we will be doing a beer brewing tutorial
on behalf of Expert Village. Here we have
a finished beer that we are ready to go ahead
and bottle. As you can see all the yeast has
settled down on the bottom. We have a nice
clear beer. We have no more air lock activity
at all. That's good. That means our yeast
has dropped out. It is no longer producing
carbon dioxide to bubble through the air lock.
We are done fermenting. What we will do here
is go ahead and rack from this container back
down into our primary fermenter. We're going
to use this primary fermenter as a bottling
bucket. Here we have a sanitized racking cane
and what we'll do is go ahead and dip the
top of this racking cane, the tube section,
down into some sanitizer making sure it is
completely submerged and while I have this
in the bucket I'm actually going to hold my
finger down over the end of this tubing bring
it up, and now we have a tube that is full
of sanitizer solution. Now we go ahead and
place our racking cane down into our carboy
here.
We take a drinking glass, set that aside,
lower the top of our siphon cane and go ahead
and let that sanitizer solution come on out.
The sanitizer solution will be followed by
beer so we go ahead and plug the end again
and go ahead and place this over into our
bottling bucket. It is very important that
we siphon and don't pour these things and
we want to keep the air out of our beer. Siphoning
is a way to do this very gently and we'll
also leave all of this sediment behind at
the bottom. It is important that we have the
bottom of this container below the top of
this container. If you were to pour this beer
directly into the bucket here, you would be
taking a lot of that sediment with you as
well as mixing the beer with oxygen, which
we don't want. You'll know when you are done
siphoning because the siphon tube will actually
fill with air and stop siphoning. You will
lose a little bit in the bottom of the container
that is feeding but that's okay because most
of that is sediment and you don't want it
in your beer anyway.
