Last week I read something about transferring wine from one carboy to another under pressure as a method of degassing. This got me thinking so I followed it up.
I have acquired a mechanical small pump (£8 0n e bay) that fits on the end of my drill and when I put one tube into a carboy of water and switch on the pump, it will empty that 5 gallon of water to the other carboy which is on the same table, in under a minute.
Would this be a good idea to degass as its so easy to use, in fact I used it last week with a sediment trap attached, to transfer out one of my finished wines into a clean carboy with a tap ready to bottle.
Seems to me to be a great labour saving device if it works and the fact that the tubes can be submerged, there will be very little air reintroduction, or would it be better to let the transferred wine fall from a height to get the foam to a max.
Im just putting it out there as an idea which I am sure someone else has thought of already, lol.
I have acquired a mechanical small pump (£8 0n e bay) that fits on the end of my drill and when I put one tube into a carboy of water and switch on the pump, it will empty that 5 gallon of water to the other carboy which is on the same table, in under a minute.
Would this be a good idea to degass as its so easy to use, in fact I used it last week with a sediment trap attached, to transfer out one of my finished wines into a clean carboy with a tap ready to bottle.
Seems to me to be a great labour saving device if it works and the fact that the tubes can be submerged, there will be very little air reintroduction, or would it be better to let the transferred wine fall from a height to get the foam to a max.
Im just putting it out there as an idea which I am sure someone else has thought of already, lol.