Filtering Pictures

[RedNeckWino]

Many ask about filtering. I'll start a thread of filtering pictures. Hope a few others can post also.

The first one is using pressure to push through a whole house filter. The bucket that is receiving was cleaned and sterilized then filled with co2 to keep down oxidation. Did it with the lid off in hope of showing a bit more. Normally after i shoot the co2 I would put the lid back on and vent through the hole for the air lock.

Second is the VinBrite. I finnish with this one now just to polish the wine. The gold colored carboy is skeeter pee already finished. The red being filtered is a blackberry second wine.

Third is the whole house filter again. Vacuum racking and filtering. This wine is Strawberry Chocolate.

 

[elkanddeer2001]

are you using a vacum pump to pull the wine or a pressure pump to push it?

 

[winemaker_3352]

It looks like a vacuum pump or a medical aspirator.

 

[ffemt128]

First picture it looks as though you are using the pump as a compressor and pushing the wine out of carboy, is that correct. Last is definately set up vacuum racking judging from the picture.

 

[RedNeckWino]

My pump actually does both. First pic is pushing, last one is pulling. The vacuum is faster though. And easier on the wine. The thought was for the number of posts I have read asking if you can use pressure, how do you hook it up ect.. The regulator is medical. The pump is aspirator, but light industrial.

 

[Runningwolf]

I filtered 6 carboys today with my enolmatic filter and vacuum pump set at 8". Every time I tried to time how long it was taking I would forget to look at the end as I was more worried about over flowing the receiving carboy. I believe it took about 3 minutes though to do each carboy.