Racking to the Secondary

Overall, this went well but will go great next time with a few tips. Biggest tip is not to do this in the kitchen where the counter tops are 33 inches high. Bathroom would be better. Even better would be the kitchen, but with the secondary fermenter on a milk crate. When you go to use that auto-siphon, you need the primary and secondary to be pretty close.

I filled up the bottling bucket with 5 gals of water and star san, then siphoned it into the 5-gal. I needed about another gallon of water to bring it to the next though. Sanitizing in the bucket were the: bung, new lock, siphoning tube, auto-siphon.

Also, pouring sanitizer water from the 5gal can be messy going into the sink. Try pouring back into the bucket. Then you can use that water to fill up the primary when you need to clean it.

Note: I tried to fit the siphon tube onto the bottling bucket spigot and it would not fit. I might need a different size for that or stretch it somehow.

Well done video here on racking to a secondary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG6kdJQGBkM

Primary Fermentation

At 26 hours we were bubbling about 1 bubble/second. Day 2, still bubbling well. Temp of the fermenter was up around 72-74 due to the endothermic reaction. I could not keep it cool in the closet. Day 3 it started to slow down with bubbling every 7 seconds. A few hours later on day 3 it was 1 every 14 seconds. Day 4, 1 per minute. Day 6, 1 per 1:24.  Did not check again until day 10 and it was over 2 minutes, maybe 3 I stopped timing it at 2 minutes.