mooney
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How does every one De gas?
Its Some thing I never bothered with to begin with but as time has gone on I get frustrated with the little bubbles on the surface when I pour my still aged mead. I have seen aging mead work wonders with mead but even with a year and a half in secondary I have co2 released when I bottle and then pour.
I have tried the drill method but it's not much fun. And I bought a wine saver vacume hand pump which was not fun but appeared to extract more co2. Although never all of it.
I recently bought a vacume bag machine and hooked it up to my demi John's and it at least does not need hand pumped but still needs babysat to control the foam and keep pressing the start button as it cuts off on a timer. I'm now getting allot of co2 but it is still endless. Has any one ever managed to completely degas a mead?
I have an air conditioning vacume pump at work which I'm tempted to bring home. Ťotal over kill. Has anyone ever used one of these to degas with? I know this thing can create a vacume to boil moisture at normal temperature,so I don't want to start boiling alcohol.
Its Some thing I never bothered with to begin with but as time has gone on I get frustrated with the little bubbles on the surface when I pour my still aged mead. I have seen aging mead work wonders with mead but even with a year and a half in secondary I have co2 released when I bottle and then pour.
I have tried the drill method but it's not much fun. And I bought a wine saver vacume hand pump which was not fun but appeared to extract more co2. Although never all of it.
I recently bought a vacume bag machine and hooked it up to my demi John's and it at least does not need hand pumped but still needs babysat to control the foam and keep pressing the start button as it cuts off on a timer. I'm now getting allot of co2 but it is still endless. Has any one ever managed to completely degas a mead?
I have an air conditioning vacume pump at work which I'm tempted to bring home. Ťotal over kill. Has anyone ever used one of these to degas with? I know this thing can create a vacume to boil moisture at normal temperature,so I don't want to start boiling alcohol.