YOU MISSED MY POINT THE TOWN WAS VERY PRETTY i WASN'T!! bEERS TO CHEAP!

Today I siphoned the beer from the primary brew keg into a glass carboy for the secondary fermentation. I actually started last night by sterilizing the carboy. I filled it with a dilute solution of chlorine bleach and let it sit all night with the solution in it. This morning, I emptied it and then rinsed it twice before letting it drain for a while. I had a couple cups of coffee and then proceeded to sterilize the racking equipment (siphon, etc.), the stopper and airlock for use with the carboy. After all of this was done, I pried the top off of the primary keg. I mean pry too -- even with a tool I purchased to get the top off, it was difficult. When I got it off, the smell was fabulous! I think I can now state that it is actually beer in there! Looking into the keg, there is a lot of sediment from the yeast. The beer is fairly dark in color. I then placed the carboy on the floor beneath the keg and and inserted the racking tube. The one I bought has a manual priming pump to get the siphon started, so I placed the soft plastic siphon tube down into the carboy and pump started the siphoning process. It took a bit over five minutes for the beer to transfer from the primary keg to the carboy. While it siphoned, I moved the end of the siphon around so that it would splash air into the beer for further fermentation. When it was done, there was about a half inch left in the primary keg, but it was mostly sediment from the yeast you wouldn't want to transfer. The racking tube has a device that fits on its end that keeps you from drawing from the very bottom so you won't get the sediment. After the carboy was filled, I lifted it up to the table and stoppered it with the airlock in place. I then rinsed and wiped down the primary keg and cleaned all of the siphoning equipment. Next Friday or Saturday, I will start monitoring the specific gravity to see if the brewing has stopped, after which it will be time to bottle the beer. If you would like to see the photographs I took during this procedure, they can be seen at my blog

Enjoy your beers,

Hello Dave.

I hope you "pillow" has been adjusted and that you are scheduled for some qulaity time sleep - hmmm wonder if you can say that - LOL

Had a look at your blog. Are you sure this is not becoming a large scale production facility - looks very professional!!!!

Quite amaizing the way this "natural" process is being executed to provide you with good tasting nectare. Are you going to name it? Will "discovery" be a good name as you will finish the process more or less when discovery completes its trip scheduled to start tomorrow?

Thanks for the update ....

Dave,

are you still catching up on your sleep?
Hope you are sleeping well, letting out lots of gas and washing those beer mugs down ready to to do some tasting in a fortnight.

Let us know if anything is happening over in Raleigh - or are sitting outside with a keg of beer watching the shuttle through a telescope?

Dave was up early this morning. I expect he is getting a much-needed nap.