Bottling 1 gallon (process)

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Elmer

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I feel somewhat foolish asking this, however I can not seem to reconcile this process in my head to my hearts content.

I am going to be bottling my 1st batch of 1 gallon of wine.
My typical process when bottling 6 gallons is to rack the carboy back into a fermenting bucket. The bucket has been fixed with a spicket which I use to bottle with one of those tipped bottling sticks!

The only issue I see with this is that it would require me to tip the bucket to get just 1 gallon out. Since the spicket is just below the 1 gallon mark.

Since I dont use a pump just looking for feedback on how people do this. Looking for tips to make my life easier.

Otherwise I may just rack into a 1 gallon glass jug and use the auto siphon/ with bottling stick.


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Racked a few experimental 1 gallon batches today, and have bottled a few. I use tubing from my camelbak (my auto siphon and tubing are pretty large-bore, and don't fare well with such small quantities), plus the tubing is thin so you can squeeze it off with your finger, no need to clamp anything, sanitize 5 bottles, start a siphon with my mouth or a 60cc gastric syringe, and then fill bottles.

I'm sure it could be done with an auto siphon and bottling attachment like I do for 6 gallon batches, but I'm just lazy about washing/sanitizing and it's easier for me to only have to clean a small piece of tubing when I'm only yielding a couple of bottles.

And if I had a small sized auto siphon/racking cane, it might change my quick and dirty way of doing things, but hey, it works.
 
I specifically went out and bought a small auto siphon, because I felt foolish using the big siphone on my 1 gallon jug. Not to mention it was sooooo much easier to clean the small siphon.

I like the idea of just going from jug to bottle. This may give me a chance to run it through a coffe filter, since I had some sparkalloid in the wine and I dont want to suck that stuff up and put it into a bottle!
 
If you have the small auto siphon, use it and your bottling attachment, or clearly jug to bottle with a coffee filter would work if you're careful and have a steady hand. I have butter fingers and it'd be too easy for a slip of the hand to cause a loss of a significant portion of a small batch.
 
If you have the small auto siphon, use it and your bottling attachment, or clearly jug to bottle with a coffee filter would work if you're careful and have a steady hand. I have butter fingers and it'd be too easy for a slip of the hand to cause a loss of a significant portion of a small batch.

I am luckly I have a little one who loves being "daddy's wine helper"
She helps me mix ingredients, stirr and checks ferm daily to make sure the bubble are still going.
When I rack she is beyond eager to hold the hose steady.
So I will see how it goes!
 
Prior to my AIO Vacuum pump I used a 1/4 inch plastic hose with a fuel cutoff valve. Once you have established wine flow you can use the inline cutoff valve (all plastic) to stop flow and change to a new bottle without losing prime. I still use it on small one gallon jobs because its quick efficient and an easy cleaning job.
 
Just rack directly into the bottles, why bother racking into a bucket first ???
Saves you a lot of hassle.

Luc
 
Luc said:
Just rack directly into the bottles, why bother racking into a bucket first ???
Saves you a lot of hassle.

Luc

Simple. To rack it off of the sediment. To make sure no sediment is present prior to bottling. Mistakes happen so you eliminate adverse variables!
 

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