Recent content by wm36

6 gallons every summer the past 4 years. Margarita wine variant. 3371+24=3395

My bulk aging area in the garage is made up of two-level shelves. One of the benefits of the AIO is that I don't have to lift carboys any more to do gravity siphoning. My only difficulty has been controlling the shut off like I described but the in line valve solves it pretty well.

I had the same problem as you. When racking low to high, wine starts flowing back to the source when you shut off the pump like you describe. When racking high to low, wine keeps flowing to the destination after shutting off the pump, easily resulting in an overflow. Further back in this...

I think you are confused about the fill tube and the vacuum/overflow line. The fill tube is the one that is visible, extending an inch or so below the stopper. The overflow tube is basically level with the bottom of the stopper. When you hit the vacuum release the fill tube becomes a gravity...

PET transfer kit - thanks! Thanks for the new PET transfer kit! Interesting product. I use all glass for my wine but still have a couple of PET containers that I use for making beer. Which means still having to hoist fermentation buckets up for gravity siphoning. I will be ordering one of these...

Absolutely! My bottling partner (aka wife) no longer has to sit on the floor under the open dishwasher door with the gravity siphon. She is now able to stand at the counter with the AIO and fill bottles while I put on caps, stack bottles in cases and keep her supplied with empties. So much...

I like the idea of that valve. I may try one, but for slightly different reasons. When racking low to high I always lose about 2 inches in the destination before I can break the siphon. Going high to low I sometimes overflow if I don't anticipate the shutoff soon enough. This valve would help...

When we first started making wine about 5 years ago, we would make about 5 gallons and bottle it with a bottling wand and gravity siphon on the open door of the dishwasher. It was doable. Each year we have increased how much we make. Fast forward to this year. Earlier this week I needed to clear...

I have reviewed the All In One before, but I needed to post an update. I have mainly used my AIO to rack, and I don't remember what happened last fall, but my able bodied assistant (my lovely wife) was not able to help me on bottling day, so I did it myself with the AIO. This year I broke her in...

Hi. I'm not the expert you're asking for, going into my 4th year doing this, but I have only done fresh grapes, so just one or two batches a year, starting in the fall. I had some of the same impressions you describe when I was starting out. What I found was that after bottling and sitting in...

I started looking at pump setups recently after a little heavier than normal beer-making activity last summer. I had not yet injured my back lifting these 5 and 7 gallon containers, but I didn't want to "wish I had done it earlier" and decided to do something before I hurt myself. I looked at...