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The essential equipment for home brewing are:
- A vessel for boiling the ingredients.
- Fermentation vessel. bottles, caps, and a capping tool.
- Muslin or Terylene for
straining.
- Plastic tube for syphoning.
Syphoning
A 2m length of tubing with an internal diameter of about 1cm is needed for syphoning. The best tube is plastic beverage tubing which
can be obtained from most stores that have home brewing supplies.
If the syphon tubing is placed on a bench and the exit-end' sliced
with a sharp knife at 45 degrees to its cross section, it will improve
the flow of the beer by causing less splashing and foaming.
The object of syphoning is to draw off as clear a beer as possible
into another vessel or bottles and to leave the sediment behind. To do
this, a glass U-tube is slipped into the end of the tube as shown in the
diagram. Another method is for a piece of plastic knitting needle to be
tied to the tube, so that it keeps the end of the tube about 2.5cm above the bottom of the vessel.
The vessel that you are syphoning from must be above the vessel that
you are syphoning to. The higher above, the faster the syphon will run.
Starting is effected by simply sucking on the end of the tube. To
control or stop the flow, the end of the tube is doubled back on itself.
Alternatively, a spring clip can be purchased, or a peg used, to pinch
off the tube.
Another method of starting the syphon is to submerge the tube in the
brew until all of the air within the tube has been replaced by brew.
Take care not to disturb the sediment. Keep one end of the tube in
the brew that you intend to syphon. Firmly pinch and so seal the other
end of the tube. Move this end over to the new container. Release this
end of the tube. The brew will then flow.
The brew is to flow from the sliced end of the syphon tubing.
Before use, the tube should be sterilized by soaking in sodium
metabisulphite solution and then rinsed with clean water; make certain
to run some water through the tube. After use, the tube should be rinsed
in the same way.
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