Monty Knapp
Senior Member
When you degas a wine, are you doing this to remove ALL CO2 gas? Or just some of it/most of it?
I've assumed all along that it was to remove ALL of it, but I ran a degassing paddle on a drill today intermittently for an hour and was still getting gas! And NO, I wasn't mixing air into it!
I kept the paddle in the bottom 2/3's of the carboy and stopped running the paddle when the surface started to churn up and before a vortex travelled down to the paddles. Then I'd wait 1 or 2 minutes then do it again.
This was an Island Mist Strawberry kit.
I remember a Green Apple Island Mist kit having a lot of gas. Stopped degassing with a it drill after ~6 minutes. That wine didn't clear for several months.
I've assumed all along that it was to remove ALL of it, but I ran a degassing paddle on a drill today intermittently for an hour and was still getting gas! And NO, I wasn't mixing air into it!
I kept the paddle in the bottom 2/3's of the carboy and stopped running the paddle when the surface started to churn up and before a vortex travelled down to the paddles. Then I'd wait 1 or 2 minutes then do it again.
This was an Island Mist Strawberry kit.
I remember a Green Apple Island Mist kit having a lot of gas. Stopped degassing with a it drill after ~6 minutes. That wine didn't clear for several months.