Ferrari bottle filler

[Nate]

Experiences with this filler? The reviews seem really good but after watching a couple videos, it seems like it is aerating a lot while filling compared to a simple tube/check valve style filler.

 

[cyanmonkey]

My dad bought one and I thought it was terrible. Maybe we weren't using it correctly, but I'd go with the old fashioned spring loaded.

 

[Nate]

Every video I see shows a lot of aeration taking place. This can't be good for long term storage of wine or mead...

 

[cyanmonkey]

Any bottle filler will introduce oxygen, but yeah I agree. are you unhappy with a bottling wand?

 

[Nate]

Any bottle filler will introduce oxygen, but yeah I agree. are you unhappy with a bottling wand?

Been brewing beer for 10 years and, in that time, bottled 1 bottle of beer... 3 days ago. lol. All kegs prior to this. Recently started into mead and was looking for a good bottling tool. Purchased both a standard bottling wand and the Ferrarai... will probably not use the Ferrari because of oxygen and aging concerns.

 

[cyanmonkey]

You think about a beer gun?

 

[Nate]

You think about a beer gun?

Yeah, thought about it but we really don't bottle any beer and just started making mead. We bottled our 1 beer straight off the tap (Perlick flow control faucet) and the previous batch of mead with just pinched tubing. lol. We'll probably just use a spring loaded filler for the next few mead batches and see how it goes.

 

[DoctorCAD]

Vacuum filling doesnt introduce any oxygen, except for the oxygen in the gap between the cork and liquid, and its fast.

 

[Firewalker11]

Vacuum filling doesnt introduce any oxygen, except for the oxygen in the gap between the cork and liquid, and its fast.

Indeed!

 

[phil74501]

I've got one of those. The only problem I have with it is it spews a bit of whatever you're bottling out of the top near the adjustment knob. No matter how tight, or loose, I set that knob at, it spews out a fine mist of beer/wine/mead. It appears as if there's a piece of plastic, I'm assuming a gasket, that comes loose. The first time I used it it didn't do that. Every batch since then it has. You just have to accept that there'll be bit of sticky stuff to clean up when done bottling.