Whole house filters, cleaning?

[smikes]

With the asperator hooked to a whole house filter,after filtering wine, can I just pump clean water through, then a strong kmet solution and store it in a ziplock?


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How about using a course filter when racking off of secondary fermenter, when wine is totally dry? Would it help or hurt? Or do absolutely nothing?




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Has anyone tried to use the asperator for bottling?








Yeah , I know. Questions ,questions, questions.....

 

[Wayne1]

OK, I'm going to reveal my ignorance - what in the heck is an asperator??

 

[grapeman]

smikes some guys do clean the filters as you say as long as it is a good quality filter. Be sure to sanitize it to keep bacteria from growing in it. I use an old primary bucket made up as a cork humidor with a little jar of k-meta in it(open to the air in the bucket). I put several filters in there to keep them sterile. A baggie is too hard to keep k-meta in. I wouldn't try to filter even with a course filter at that point- it will plug up in no time if you get any lees.


Yes the aspirator will work well for bottling. I use this filler for that purpose.
http://www.finevinewines.com/ProdDetA.asp?PartNumber=4887


Put the vacuum line on the top overflow nozzle.




Wayne- an aspirator is a sealed oilless vauum pump. Look up vacuum pump or aspirator on here. Several of us have threads on their use and setup.

 

[Wayne1]

Yes, I see now your posts on this topicAppleman - thanks

 

[smikes]

Thanks Appleman,
I have the Fararri ,so I will have to play with it. Do you keep the vacuum real low when bottling? Wasn't sure if the constant vaccum would cause a problem on the auto shut off part of the filler.