After spending my entire evening last night trying to degas my second winekit I decided this is not how I wish to spend my evening.
I love the kitmaking but hate this degassing process even with a drill.
After two hours it seemed hardly any progress was made the small bubbles still appeared in abundance.
I would love to switch to a vacuumpump but the problem is that there are no glass carboys available in my country.
(winekits for some reason seem impopular in the Netherlands/Belgium/Germany and only cheap kits are sold).
There are glass fermentation bottles like these:
They are however 25 ltr.
Can they savely be used for the clearing stage of the wine or is this too much headroom?
If I want to bulk age I could always transfer the wine to the plastic carboy after a week....
The glass would hopefully enable me to use a vacuumpump of some sorts...
I love the kitmaking but hate this degassing process even with a drill.
After two hours it seemed hardly any progress was made the small bubbles still appeared in abundance.
I would love to switch to a vacuumpump but the problem is that there are no glass carboys available in my country.
(winekits for some reason seem impopular in the Netherlands/Belgium/Germany and only cheap kits are sold).
There are glass fermentation bottles like these:
They are however 25 ltr.
Can they savely be used for the clearing stage of the wine or is this too much headroom?
If I want to bulk age I could always transfer the wine to the plastic carboy after a week....
The glass would hopefully enable me to use a vacuumpump of some sorts...