Syphoning

[Touchstone]

What is the reason for Syphoning, I just put a tube on & drain

[BenB]

At what point? Most people don't have taps on their fvs due to difficulty sanitising.

[Goulders]

At what point? Most people don't have taps on their fvs due to difficulty sanitising.

Rubbish. It's not difficult to sanitise taps. They are easy to remove and clean

[Mashman]

Syphoning sucks !

Taps rule

[IPA]

At what point? Most people don't have taps on their fvs due to difficulty sanitising.

Rubbish. It's not difficult to sanitise taps. They are easy to remove and clean

Exactly. It's no more difficult to sanitise a tap than a syphon in fact it's easier and the risk of infection with inserting a syphon is much greater.

[BrannigansLove]

I'm in the tap and hose camp. Syphoning just ended up with bubbles in the tube, and beer on the floor.

[Touchstone]

Thanks, I thought I was missing something when time and again I see posts mentioning Syphoning , tap and hose is much easier and I always clean & soak tap in bleach , so easy.

[BenB]

So why don't people use taps then? Dead space losses? Risk of trub collecting in the tap and then going into the beer (not that that would have much impact)? Neither taps nor syphoning are modern techniques so it's not as if we use syphoning through default. Is it due to FVs originally being glass? I suspect our American cousins use syphoning due to the issue with fitting a tap to a glass Carboy I must admit I was always lead to believe risk of infection but it's good to query these things- avoid the risk of just passing on internet folklore.....

[Hanglow]

I usually just syphon. There's not much between either method tbf, you have to be clean either way. The only problem with the tap that I can think of is that if you have a lot of trub then you are more likely to draw some off into your bottling bucket/keg as you always draw from the bottom. And different beers produce different amounts of trub. But with a syphon you can draw from the top/middle of the beer and always avoid that.

[IPA]

I usually just syphon. There's not much between either method tbf, you have to be clean either way. The only problem with the tap that I can think of is that if you have a lot of trub then you are more likely to draw some off into your bottling bucket/keg as you always draw from the bottom. And different beers produce different amounts of trub. But with a syphon you can draw from the top/middle of the beer and always avoid that.

The answer is to not have any trub and use a tap. How to achieve that can be learnt here.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76021&start=15

[Touchstone]

Trub isn't a problem with me, it is usually solid on the bottom

[Hanglow]

Fair enough, I'm too lazy to secondary