And the world’s most ghetto homebrewer is………….
I transferred my saison to a secondary fermenter after nine days in the primary. The above rigging resulted because, well, I’m not sure why. The bung to my carboy kept popping out and would not stay in. This is the first time I’ve used this new carboy I picked up off Craigslist, and I’m positive it’s older than mine, but I didn’t think the opening would be a different size. At least that’s what I’m assuming is the issue. But because I don’t have another size of bung this one was going to have to work, so duct tape it was. God, I love that stuff.
That healthy fermentation I mentioned definitely left some evidence. Scientifically speaking, it left a AA battery’s worth of sediment in the bottom of the primary.
When I was racking the beer to secondary, I had to hold the bottom of the siphon up instead of just letting it rest on the bottom. Here’s why:
I really need to start remembering that I’m filming sideways if I turn the camera. The sediment was high enough it was overflowing the little guard on the bottom of the racking cane, hence the cloudiness. I was also not able to get the entire volume of beer out of primary, ending with a little less than the five gallons I put in. I probably could have gotten it all, but it would have been full of yeast and yeast bi-products. YUM!
Now that I have abandoned fermenting in my bottling bucket (because it has an air leak), I realized this was the first time I had ever siphoned from one carboy to another! O.K., not really a big deal, but I wanted a picture and took one. I’ll spare you posting that one. I’ll also spare you the video I took of the secondary fermenter after it started bubbling again, probably because it had been agitated when I moved it. But still, I was impressed that after nine days there was still enough activity in there to produce sufficient gas to bubble the airlock. Still haven’t posted that recipe. Maybe tomorrow? That would be good to get my posting rate up.
