Fermenters?

[maett.gs]

Hello,

Typically I ferment my wine now in a fermenting bucket - but instead of moving to a carboy for secondary, can I actually move it to one of my conical fermenters that I use for beer? I'm wondering if I could apply CO2 someway to remove oxygen from the fermenter. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[pvtpublic]

You could definitely use a conical as a wine secondary. Even a primary too! The nice thing about stainless over plastic is that cleaning and sanitizing is a lot more reliable, especially if you wind up with a spoiled batch. You would definitely have to purge it with co2, just as you would with a corny keg.

 

[maett.gs]

You could definitely use a conical as a wine secondary. Even a primary too!

If I wanted to use it as a primary, do you have any advice for dumping the bentonite? I have been making wine kits from WinExpert. My current plan was to do a primary in a fermenting bucket then siphon off for secondary into a Spike Flex+ fermenter.

The nice thing about stainless over plastic ...

I use glass carboys instead of plastic. I'm hoping I could use my stainless fermenters because cleaning carboys is a huge chore I'm not sure if I'd want to use plastic.

You would definitely have to purge it with co2, just as you would with a corny keg.

If the fermentation is complete, do you think I would use a gas manifold (l have this: Gas Manifold | Spike Brewing) or would it be better to use something like the Spike All-in-one PRV (https://spikebrewing.com/products/all-in-one-prv)?

Or do I even need to pressurize it at all? How would you propose to purge with CO2?

Thanks for your help!

 

[sibelman]

Purging with fermentation effluent works well for many brewers. Saves on CO2 purchases and avoids impurities (incl. oxygen) in commercial CO2.