Hello, this is JB. I'm with Austin Homebrew
Supply in Austin, Texas. Today we're discussing
beer making equipment and wine making equipment.
And particularly, right now I'm going to talk
about siphoning. Why do you need to transfer
liquids from one point to another? During
fermentation, what happens is you're going
to develop sediment on the bottom of whatever
fermentation vessel you're using. So, in beer
making, we call it trube, and in wine making
we call it lease, but none-the-less, it's
sediment that will develop during fermentation.
So, the idea is to take the liquid off the
top of that sediment and move it in to another
vessel. How do we do this? We use siphoning
equipment. And particularly, right now I'm
going to talk about one of my favorite inventions
coming along in quite a number of years in
the home brewing industry. It's called the
auto siphon. Now, traditionally, to get a
siphon started you would have to put the end
of the siphon in to the full vessel, suck
on the end of the line to get this flow going,
and then put the other end in to the empty
vessel. The auto siphon's great. It basically,
the best way I could describe it is it's basically
a pump, almost like a bicycle pump, but it's
used to move liquid. Now these things are
not too awful expensive, they're less than
fifteen bucks each. And I find them really,
really handy, and I'll show you why. This
is why. When you put it in to the vessel that's
full, the other end would go in to your empty
one. My hose is a little bit short here, but
it would go in to the empty one here. And
instead of having to pull, suck on to the
end of this hose to get it going, watch this,
you're just going to pump it, just a few times,
and with that it's going. It's caused the,
it's forced the liquid up and down the tube,
causing a vacuum to form. Now the siphon's
going, and no reason to have to continue pumping.
So, this item's called the auto siphon. Think
it's a fantastic tool.
