Anyone have creative methods for degassing. I have 6 gallons of raspberry
that is finished except for a lot of dissolved CO2. I have been stirring
but it still has CO2.

Andie

On Dec 30, 7:51*am, "Andiez" wrote:
Anyone have creative methods for degassing. *I have 6 gallons of raspberry
that is finished except for a lot of dissolved CO2. *I have been stirring
but it still has CO2.

Andie

I actually use one of those vac-u-vin wine preserver pumps. You might
have to be creative to make sure it has a good seal on the carboy, and
don't pump it really quickly - you just want to slowly draw vacuum -
so as to not break the carboy.

Rob

"Andiez" wrote in message
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Anyone have creative methods for degassing. I have 6 gallons of raspberry
that is finished except for a lot of dissolved CO2. I have been stirring
but it still has CO2.

Andie


Sure - let it bulk age under airlock. The CO2 will decrease to levels that
won't result in your wine being fizzy. I don't see a need to specifically
'degas', unless one is trying to get wine in the bottle as fast as possible.
Of course, that's the game with kits and explains why their instructions
specify the procedure.

Cal

Anyone have creative methods for degassing. ...

Sure - let it bulk age under airlock. ...

Ditto. I've never degassed any of my wines or meads. I just let them
bulk age for a few months or more.

Greg

Ditto that. I made the mistake once of bottling too early and had some
fizz in my wine. Since then, I've simply been more patient and let time
do it's work.



On 2007-12-30 11:58:23 -0800, "me" said:


"Andiez" wrote in message
news:V7Pdj.1704$Xe5.125@trndny09...
Anyone have creative methods for degassing. I have 6 gallons of raspberry
that is finished except for a lot of dissolved CO2. I have been stirring
but it still has CO2.

Andie


Sure - let it bulk age under airlock. The CO2 will decrease to levels that
won't result in your wine being fizzy. I don't see a need to specifically
'degas', unless one is trying to get wine in the bottle as fast as possible.
Of course, that's the game with kits and explains why their instructions
specify the procedure.

Cal

On Dec 30 2007, 10:51 am, "Andiez" wrote:
Anyone have creative methods for degassing. I have 6 gallons of raspberry
that is finished except for a lot of dissolved CO2. I have been stirring
but it still has CO2.

Andie

I have never had success with that vacuum pulling but I would not
worry about the carboy imploding. It's only 15 pounds of additional
external pressure. There is a you tube post where they added boiling
stones and it became much more effective. Anything with a little
roughness would work if you want to try that. I pulled 25 inches of
mercury on mine but didn't add anything as a nucleation site, that
was probably the problem with my 'experiment'...

Joe

Joe-

Do you have a link on that? I'd like to see that.

Liam

On Jan 1, 6:57 pm, Joe Sallustio wrote:
On Dec 30 2007, 10:51 am, "Andiez" wrote:

Anyone have creative methods for degassing. I have 6 gallons of raspberry
that is finished except for a lot of dissolved CO2. I have been stirring
but it still has CO2.

Andie

I have never had success with that vacuum pulling but I would not
worry about the carboy imploding. It's only 15 pounds of additional
external pressure. There is a you tube post where they added boiling
stones and it became much more effective. Anything with a little
roughness would work if you want to try that. I pulled 25 inches of
mercury on mine but didn't add anything as a nucleation site, that
was probably the problem with my 'experiment'...

Joe

On Jan 2, 12:14 pm, bakes wrote:
Joe-

Do you have a link on that? I'd like to see that.

Liam

On Jan 1, 6:57 pm, Joe Sallustio wrote:

On Dec 30 2007, 10:51 am, "Andiez" wrote:

Anyone have creative methods for degassing. I have 6 gallons of raspberry
that is finished except for a lot of dissolved CO2. I have been stirring
but it still has CO2.

Andie

I have never had success with that vacuum pulling but I would not
worry about the carboy imploding. It's only 15 pounds of additional
external pressure. There is a you tube post where they added boiling
stones and it became much more effective. Anything with a little
roughness would work if you want to try that. I pulled 25 inches of
mercury on mine but didn't add anything as a nucleation site, that
was probably the problem with my 'experiment'...

Joe

Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehbaBiLUCD0

Joe

Thanks again Joe.

That's pretty slick. I've been using a rotary drill w/ degassing
extension; seems to work ok.

Liam