Aeration and siphoning || Online all grain homebrewing course
Channel: Team Homebrew
Date: 2017-01-09

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A good siphoning technique is important to aerate the wort and leave as much trub (hop and protein sludge) behind as possible.

Basically, you want to aerate while you siphon and leave most of the sludge behind.

To siphon safely and easily:
sit your cleaned and sanitised fermenter below the pot
make sure the tap is turned off (very important!)
clean and sanitize some clear rubber tubing
fill with boiling water
pinch one end and hold over your fermenter
stick the other in your wort and release your pinch.

Never suck on the end of your tubing. Your mouth has microbes which will spoil your beer.

The wort should now siphon quickly down into the fermenter.

Make sure the bottom end stays in the fermenter. A short plastic tube (eg part of your bottling wand) stuck in the end will help.

Make sure you aerate the beer. A drop between the end and the fermenter will agitate your wort and help introduce oxygen.

If you don’t have rubber tubing, you can slowly and carefully tip the beer into the fermenter. Leave as much trub as possible.

Next we decide how strong you want your beer to be and pitch your yeast.