Lift free winemaking
April, 2014 Filed in: Wine making
Due to some emergency eye surgery I was restricted in lifting. Well you are well aware that lifting and winemaking go together. Not so! In fact for years we have been telling people that if lifting carboys and kits is, or is becoming a concern there are ways to make wine without any lifting. On our Facebook page I have been showing how to go about the no lifting method of making wine. If you would like to visually see how this is done, check out our Facebook page and our recent posts.
Steps:
1.) Place your primary pail on the floor and your wine kit on a bench or a table. Leave the bag/bladder in the wine kit box and remove the cap. Use your siphon racking tube to move the wine from the bag to the primary pail. Add water to the primary pail as per normal.
2.) After the wine has fermented for the required 7 days or so, you can use your wine filtering machine (Buon Vino Mini Jet) machine to move the wine from the primary pail to the carboy which you place on the work bench or table. Use the hose that is placed on the drainage plate and attach it to the outlet on the pump housing. So in other words, you bypass the filtering part of the Mini Jet machine and use it strictly as a pump. You can see a picture of this on our Facebook page. If you don’t have a Mini Jet, you can borrow a filter machine from us at no cost as long as you purchased the kit from us.
3.) Now with the wine in the carboy, proceed through stabilizing and clearing stages. Rack the wine from the carboy to another carboy on the floor. Then filter your wine from the pail or carboy now on the floor through your Mini Jet Filter machine and into a carboy sitting up on the bench or table. You can then bottle your wine from the filtered wine on top of the bench or table.
Voila! Not once did you have to lift a carboy or pail! If you need a further explanation drop by the store and we can walk you through it, or visit our Facebook page!
Steps:
1.) Place your primary pail on the floor and your wine kit on a bench or a table. Leave the bag/bladder in the wine kit box and remove the cap. Use your siphon racking tube to move the wine from the bag to the primary pail. Add water to the primary pail as per normal.
2.) After the wine has fermented for the required 7 days or so, you can use your wine filtering machine (Buon Vino Mini Jet) machine to move the wine from the primary pail to the carboy which you place on the work bench or table. Use the hose that is placed on the drainage plate and attach it to the outlet on the pump housing. So in other words, you bypass the filtering part of the Mini Jet machine and use it strictly as a pump. You can see a picture of this on our Facebook page. If you don’t have a Mini Jet, you can borrow a filter machine from us at no cost as long as you purchased the kit from us.
3.) Now with the wine in the carboy, proceed through stabilizing and clearing stages. Rack the wine from the carboy to another carboy on the floor. Then filter your wine from the pail or carboy now on the floor through your Mini Jet Filter machine and into a carboy sitting up on the bench or table. You can then bottle your wine from the filtered wine on top of the bench or table.
Voila! Not once did you have to lift a carboy or pail! If you need a further explanation drop by the store and we can walk you through it, or visit our Facebook page!