Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:55 am
The plastic carboy I use has a hump dead center that's 1.5-2 inches higher than the bottom, which allows the siphon to stay above the trub. I use the same auto siphon in the link. I also use hop sacks and Irish moss to keep the wort as clean as possible from sediment.
One thing you could easily make is a brace to keep it up higher so it's hands free. Take some PVC pipe and drill a hole slightly smaller than the diameter of the siphon, then cut this in half lengthwise. Put the halves around the siphon and keep lowering it until it gets down as far as possible without picking up sediment. Then secure both ends of the PVC pipe with something like hose clamps. This will grip onto the siphon and hold it at the proper height to siphon clean beer without picking up sediment. Doing this means you just drop the siphon down until this PVC clamp stops it, start your siphon and go on with life.
Would work easier on carboys than buckets, as the length of PVC would have to be maybe 3-4 inches long for a carboy versus a foot or so for the buckets.
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