On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:07:52PM +0200, Brian Howitz wrote: > jeg skal inden for en overskuelig fremtid i gang med mit andet bryg. Jeg > har imellem tiden f?et anskaffet mig en rimelig gryde st?rrelse (22L). Jeg > regner derfor ikke med at mine svage arme kan holde til at h?lde det p? > vinballonen manuelt, som jeg kunne med de sm? gryder. Mit sp?rgsm?l er > derfor om I bruger auto h?vert til dette form?l, eller hvorledes?
I manage to pour straight from my 18 liter pot, but maybe those last few liters make a difference. Or maybe I am bigger and/or stronger... If you use siphons of any sort, be awfully sure they are clean and sanitized! I would hesitate to use my auto-siphon, I think there are too many plastic parts that are hard to reach for a good cleaning. Then again, I have had my share of infected beers, so I may be overly careful. One way is to take a small pot, tie a string to its handle, and immerse it in the boiling wort for the last 5-10 minutes. That ought to kill anything that lives on it. Let it stay in the pot while it cools down (assuming you cool a whole potfull at a time). Carefully extract the pot by pulling the string (which you have remembered to tie to the handle of the big pot!), and use it to transport the wort into your fermenter. The last part you can probably manage to pur directly. To be honest, I have not tried this method, I just improvised it while I was supposed to be working... But I have boiled a metal strainer in my wort for separating the hops and hot/cold break, and that worked fine. -Heikki -- Heikki Levanto heikki at indexdata dot dk "In Murphy We Turst"
