Transfering the Brew

As I mentioned in the last post, my main reason for transferring the brew is to try get rid of most of the sediment from it. This all sits at the bottom of the fermenting vessel and with some careful syphoning, the brew can be transferred without disturbing the sediment.

In the picture below (sorry it's a bit out of focus), you can see the end of the syphoning tube I am using inserted in the brew just below the letters R and I of the writing on the FV.

As you can see in the photo, the sediment is lying at the bottom of the FV, and by carefully ensuring that the syphon hose doesn't disturb this, this will allow the brew to transfer over cleanly.

Obviously you can't take all of the brew over as this would disturb the sediment, but I reckon between the few samples I have taken for a hydrometer reading, plus what was left behind in the FV, I have probably lost around 1 litre out the 23 litres that was brewed.

But I would rather do it that way, than have a load of sediment being disturbed when I bottle it from the tap on the FV I used for the initial fermentation.

And as you can see below in the short video, the transfer process was pretty easy, if a bit slow but didn't need to do much until it got near the bottom anyway.

So now just to leave it a few days and then transfer it back into the other FV before the bottling.