Pouring Molasses

Maltycultural

Have searched with no luck, so....how do you get your molasses from the large bucket into your fermenter without covering everything in sticky black goop?!

mark85

I buy "cane flow" molasses. All the bits of nutritional information are the same as standard feed molasses but it's runny like syrup.

It will be a bit easier to work with if you can figure out a way to heat it up a bit.

grim

If your fermenter doesn't have a wide mouth, transfer a little bit at a time to another bucket with hot water in it, mix, pour more easily. When you get down to a quarter or so in the molasses pail, add the hot water there instead so you can clean it out.

zymurgybob

I just scoop out of the bucket using a Pyrex 1L measuring cup. When I'm finished, I rinse the cup with very hot water and add that to the fermenter.

punkin

Drum heater on your mollasses drum run overnight or if it's a smaller 20l drum stand it in some hot water?

Maltycultural

Cheers guys, I can get a container into the drum, more the spillage/dribbling as I transfer that I want to minimise...will try the bucket and heat, cheers

RobertS

Can you pour into a container from the drum, so that the outside stays clean?

Smaug

Fill a spare bucket with clean water and a wet clean sponge prior to pouring. Dribbles clean right up.

jacksonbrown

There are special molasses valves that 'cut' the flow off.

punkin

I had an inch ball valve in my 200l olive drum. Made a drip catcher from a tin with a handle that hung from the valve. I may have a photo somewhere....

Nope

Unsensibel

There was a discussion on ADI about it I believe.

I work at the moment in buckets and am pre-heating with a heating belt. There's drum heaters as @punkin suggested.

If you have a heater and some lifting/tilting equipment, you can heat and then dump directly into your fermenter using a spigot.

jacksonbrown

The ones I'm talking about are nondrip. @googe was chasing one somewhere.
Just google molasses valve.

Unsensibel

Here's the link: Getting Molasses out of 55 gallon drums @ ADI Forums

Kapea

I've heard of it raining cats and dogs before, but I've never heard of it pouring mole asses! Weird...

jacksonbrown

:) a bit of creative spelling to keep things interesting.

Maltycultural

Good grist for the mill. I think the hot water and rag makes sense.

crozdog

@jacksonbrown said: The ones I'm talking about are nondrip. Googe was chasing one somewhere.
Just google molasses valve.

I think they are usually known as a "honey gate"

Kapea

Scissors Gate

Honey Gate

grim

Honey Gate - learn something new every day!

Kapea

It's the scandal that broke from honey laundering...

(Google that)

jacksonbrown

Is the counterfeit Manuka thing?

crozdog

also a type of chastity belt :))

Kapea

We don't have manuka at this corner of the polynesian triangle.

And FWIW

A Micronesian = one millionth of a Nesian (Nesian x 10^-6)

jacksonbrown

Have you got those massive centipedes?

Kapea

Several species. Scorpions too.