Bottling Straight from Primary Procedural Question

A bottling bucket is definitely necessary because you need to mix in your priming sugar, and if you do that in your primary, you're going to rouse all of the trub that is in that primary and it's going to get into your bottles. Be sure to boil the right amount of sugar for your batch size (make sure you know fairly closely how much liquid you have after siphoning off of the trub) and mix it well with gentle stirring in the bottling bucket so you don't create bubbles and introduce oxygen into the beer. Top off your beer with whatever water/priming sugar mixture is needed to reach the gallon size of the recipe. Stir again a few times during the bottling process so that you keep that sugar mixture suspended in your beer.

 

Best to use a bottling bucket but I bottle straight from primary on 1 gallon batches. Make sure you cold crash if trying to do so to get a lot of trub compacted to the bottom. Be careful to not stir it up while bottling. Buy some of the sugar cubes that are 1/2 tsp each and drop one in each bottle and you're good to go.

I don't recommend doing this but if you're in a pinch it can be done.

 

I've bottled wine directly from growlers before. The problem is that if you're using a vinyl hose, you'll have to kind of fish around to hit the bottom of the beer and not stir up a bunch of trub. You don't want to rack that stuff over into your bottles. As said above, you need to worry about carbonation. If you plan on using carb tabs or adding sugar to each bottle your method would work. It would be a different frustration for bottling day. Probably no better or worse than a bottling bucket. @MCDForm 1/2 tsp is a little much for each bottle, I believe.

 

@inchrisin I carbed mine with 1/2 tsp for a good number of batches with no problems but I'd go ahead and recheck the calculations just in case or just use some carb tabs. You are totally right about trying not to stir up trub. When using this method it's more effective to start your siphon from the middle of the liquid and work your hose down as the level dips. Plan on leaving a lot more beer in the bucket than you normally would.

Again I only recommend this in a pinch. Bottling bucket is the way to go and way I do it for 5 gallon batches that I'm not kegging.