bkisel
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Well I'm on my fourth kit (MM 23 all grape) and once again even with one of those drill stirrers very little CO2 seems to get released. This is in a carboy just before stabilization and clearing. I know I'm wasting my time because after I top off and hit it with a hand vacuum pump. Man, every stroke on that little wine bottle hand pump pulls up a thousand or more bubbles - no exaggeration at least for the first 2-3 days of pumping. I pump thousands of times over the course of a bunch of days before it gets hard to pump and the bubbles stop (or nearly so).
BTW, with this kit I used the sheet racking technique but it doesn't seem to have made any noticeable difference. Also, used a lot of pulsing and reversing with the drill. Thinking now that with my next kit I'll rack from the "secondary" carboy fermentor into a bucket and try degassing there.
BTW, with this kit I used the sheet racking technique but it doesn't seem to have made any noticeable difference. Also, used a lot of pulsing and reversing with the drill. Thinking now that with my next kit I'll rack from the "secondary" carboy fermentor into a bucket and try degassing there.