looks like i got the hind end of the spool or something, does anyone have a trick up their sleeve for making my miscreant tubing behave? ive been offered the suggestion of hanging and weighting at NB forums and i thought i would set this out here as well.
Yea my gawd my friends. I sometimes wish that there was a ban on selling the last end of a spool!
I have very few of these type of hoses actually. Believe it or not, I still use the exact same hose that came with my 10 year old B3 starter kit for transferring beers. I’d say that I easily have over 200 beers transferred through that silly tube.
Now, I have two new hoses though. They are hooked to a “Y” adapter so I can transfer my 10 gallons into two 5 gallon kegs at the same time. This method ended my problems with stratification.
What works for me is the permenant installation of a cheap plastic bottling wand on the end of my racking set up.
It does decrease the flow rate a bit but I also like the ease at which I can lift up on the hose to stop the flow to secondary/keg if its going to overfill and then fill a few bottles or take a hydro sample w/o draining beer all over.