Friday, 16 March 2012

Preparing to transfer

 Started off today by taking another hydrometer reading and that was the same as yesterdays reading of 1.0002.
This means that fermentation has stopped and I will end up with a cider at around 5% ABV.
So now I could prepare to transfer to the secondary fermenting vessel (FV). The reason I have decided to do this was to try and remove as much of the sediment as possible before bottling.
After cleaning and sterilizing the 2nd FV with lid and the syphon hose, it was just a case of using gravity to syphon from one to the other as you can see which was easy to do with the cupboard am using being above floor level. 
A tip given to my by a forum member on The Home Brew Forum was to make sure the end of the syphon hose was at the bottom of the 2nd FV to ensure minimal air was getting into the brew.

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