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Does anyone have any advice for a novice regarding bottling.
I've done a few brews and notice that if I try to get every last drop into bottles I can end up with quite a bit of sediment.
I've started using a big auto siphon in the bottom of a plastic fermenter, I then put this in a bottling bucket, I seem to lose about 2-3 liters if I avoid siphoning any trub. The tap on the bottling bucket is then about an inch and a half from the bottom of the bottling bucket which leads to me losing another couple of liters when bottling!
Should the tap be right at the bottom of the bottling bucket (this would involve buying a new bucket!) or is it just inevitable that I will lose this much beer, it seems a bit of a shame because as far as I can see all the beer in the bottling bucket is of drinkable quality!
Just bottled American pale ale, dry hopped with gorse flowers
I've done a few brews and notice that if I try to get every last drop into bottles I can end up with quite a bit of sediment.
I've started using a big auto siphon in the bottom of a plastic fermenter, I then put this in a bottling bucket, I seem to lose about 2-3 liters if I avoid siphoning any trub. The tap on the bottling bucket is then about an inch and a half from the bottom of the bottling bucket which leads to me losing another couple of liters when bottling!
Should the tap be right at the bottom of the bottling bucket (this would involve buying a new bucket!) or is it just inevitable that I will lose this much beer, it seems a bit of a shame because as far as I can see all the beer in the bottling bucket is of drinkable quality!
Just bottled American pale ale, dry hopped with gorse flowers