It Doesn't Suck
Siphoning stuff

Well, actually it does, but not as bad as sucking on the end of your hose to start the siphon to transfer wort from one vessel to another.

I've talked about the HomeBrew Digest before. Well, there are other interesting digests out there as well including the Mead Lovers Digest, the Cider Digest, the Distilled Beverage Digest (careful here or those BATF folks may come knocking!), etc. I found the following cool brewing device on the Mead digest but it can just as easily be applied to racking beer. Check out the following post from Bruce Conner with the URLs for viewing his device.

Subject: Re: dread thread
From: Bruce Conner 
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:57:40 -0400

Guess I should de lurk for the first time in a year or more. :') OK,
the solution is at hand and it's easy. It's a matter of adding a "T"
section to your siphon hose. You put one end of the T in your receiving
bottle and clamp it off. You suck on the other part of the "T". When
the siphon is going (into your mouth) you clamp that hose off. Now open
the fisrt clamp. Siphon started! No chance of anything getting in your
stuff, either. For a detailed picture and animated gif of how this
works, have a look at: http://www.cybercom.net/~bconner/syphon.html 
and http://www.cybercom.net/~bconner/Anisyphon.gif

You can also restart a lost syphon this way cleanly. Hope this helps
some.

Bruce Conner

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