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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