"Chris Duncan" <news@nospam.cddsystems.co.uk> wrote in message news:<bij72m029di@enews1.newsguy.com>...[color=blue]
> But if you do that, wont you disturb al the sediment in the bottom of the
> Fermenting bucket?
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Not if you siphon carefully, using a tube with either a little u-bend
or one of those siphon-trap things on the end. Place the trap or bend
gently on the sediment, and hold it there, and you'll usually be OK.
It's also good not to have the lower bucket too much lower than the
fermentation bucket, so the transfer happens slowly and gently.

You'll leave pretty well all the spent yeast behind, and will waste
very little beer. If there's enough left behind to worry about you can
carefully pour that bit into a bottle of its own and give it a little
bit of priming sugar: drink that one last, and it will probably have
settled firmly.

Don't knock kits, by the way. As you've found one you like, you're
quids in, and it'll be a lot better than *some* of the unpredictable
garbage some people turn out on the kitchen stove. I reckon the real
trade secret is leaving it long enough before opening the bottles!

(An off-topic thing, though: because you top-posted, I went all the
way to the bottom of the previous postings just in case there was
anything there, which of course there wasn't. Reading's easier if you
bottom-post, snipping out as much as poss of the previous messages.
Some people write something like [snipped]; I use [...], as above, to
show I've cut earlier stuff. It can turn into a terrible mess when
some people bottom-post and others top-post.)

Mike.