Click trick #1 Wine degassing

A few tricks I learned about degassing wine.

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[Clicklc1500]

The air in my shop vac only goes in one direction. I do have two vac's though. One for dirty jobs and one for smaller cleaner jobs. Put a couple gallons of hot water and some oxy-clean in your vac to clean it out if your concerned.

Thanks for the comment!

[Emiro0713]

I love when I find people who really take the time to use their brains. Clicklc1500, for the longest time I have had issues with my wine and degassing. I will definately use the Vacum cleaner. The question that come to my mind are; How long do you run it for? How many times?- How can we really tell the wine has been fully degassed? - thank you for your answers. - AWSOME TIPS

[Clicklc1500]

Thank you for the compliment. You'll know when you've got all the CO2 out when it stops bubbling when you put the vacume on it. I usually do it three times over the coarse of a week.

Good Luck!

[drunkfux1]

Hey click I used this method of degassing and it worked great, thanks, I also have a whizz stick, but it doesn't fit in my 1 gallon DJ'S

[Clicklc1500]

Excellent, If I helped one person it was worth it.

[drunkfux1]

How does the drill grip onto the end?

[Clicklc1500]

It grips fine. Just used a chock to tighten it to the drill. No slipping what so ever.

Good luck

[gwan79]

I'm digging the coat hanger and even more so the cost. "Zip". I'm keen to do that myself! Thanks for the tip.

[briancd73]

Thank you! Great thinking on your part. I'm glad I didn't have to think about this too long; you already did the thinking. Awesome work.

[bkpickell]

Aren't you concerned about imploding your carboy using a vacuum cleaner or a shop vac? You can't control the amount of vacuum that you put on the carboy when using those.

[Wayner665]

That is fricken genius!

[flyingfranklin]

The coat hanger is a brilliant idea!!!

[doublebarrelbuckshot]

Thanks a bunch! The coathanger idea works just great and saved me a good $15 from having to buy the whip! I was toiling for hours on degassing with the spoon but the coathanger finished it up in a matter of minutes.

[mchughc]

I'd like to begin by congratulating you on some nice ingenuity. I really like the first idea with the hanger....I remember reading that before, but nice application in hot water, etc.... My only concern would be a possible taste impact from the wet-dry shop vac. I've had some pretty nasty stuff in there and wouldn't want the slightest bit of taste, smell, whatever. Have you ever experienced any taste influence from the shop vac?

[helicrashpro]

Put a small rubber ball in the air lock you have taped to your vacuum cleaner and you should end up with a check valve that you can pull a vacuum and the ball will seal it off so you can shut off the vacuum cleaner and it will hold the vacuum. Do it a couple times over a couple days and it should be good. 

[n1ck02k1]

i like this m8 deffo how im gonna degas my wine thx