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Well, I had a vision last night. Today I did some research.
I was on a German wine forum, and they talked about making your own filtering system. Their's were way out of my capabilities, but I did some more brainstorming!
Basically, I didn't like the extra step of transferring the wine into the container, especially since it was not for sure food-grade.
So, I looked at the thing and thought long and hard.
My brain hurts now.
I used an old, one-outlet aquarium pump (very cheap on ebay, like 1.99 - you can get them at walmart or whoever sells animal supplies.
1 gallon of majorly cloudy apple wine (just did a test run, that's all) took 15 minutes.
It also works for racking.
This is what I did:
And it worked!
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MedPretzel
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Joined: 12 August 2004
Location: United States
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Posts: 1800
Well, I had a vision last night. Today I did some research.
Basically, I didn't like the extra step of transferring the wine into the container, especially since it was not for sure food-grade.
So, I looked at the thing and thought long and hard.
I used an old, one-outlet aquarium pump (very cheap on ebay, like 1.99 - you can get them at walmart or whoever sells animal supplies.
1 gallon of majorly cloudy apple wine (just did a test run, that's all) took 15 minutes.
It also works for racking.
This is what I did:
<LI>Got the aquarium pump.
<LI>Hooked up the pump tube hooked to the pump.
<LI>Put the pump tube in the Orange Cap. (you need to create a vacuum)
<LI>Got the filtering tube in the Orange Cap. I needed to cut a piece of the stalk so that it would fit.
<LI>Plugged in the aquarium pump (no on-off switch)
<LI>Made sure the "air tube" was filled as normal (with the valve) and closed the valve.</LI>
And it worked!
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Martina
LOCATION - Cleveland, Ohio
http://quitobee.paetzel.info
