The beer is siphoned to the bottling bucket using gravity. The priming sugar has already been poured into the bottom of the bottling bucket, which allows for the siphoning action to stir the sugar in during the transfer. It is important for the priming sugar to become well blended, and it may help to gently stir the beer in the bottling bucket with the end of the siphon tube as the beer flows into the bucket. Do not splash and aerate the beer at this stage because oxygen will spoil the beer when it is in the bottle. |