looking for help bottling wine

[country joe]

Just bottled some Elderflower, and found bottling difficult, would this help, or is there something better out there.

http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/bottling/ ... stick.html

 

[Megaross]

I use a bottling stick, what is your current process?

 

[matjam]

After reading about it on here I bought a bottling wand. It's made by Youngs and even comes with a tap to put in your plastic fermenting buckets etc.
I've not used the tap but the actual wand part fits onto the tubing of a Wilko syphon kit - with a bit of little bit of tape around the end of the tubing to make a snug fit.

I bottled 29 bottles yesterday with no spillage at all.
I think I paid £7ish for it. They're well worth it.

Cheers,
Matt

 

[country joe]

I use a bottling stick, what is your current process?

Syphon with a tap attached, Ive just purchased the bottling stick which is on the first post, but really getting fed up with price of postage, as there are no homebrew shops where i live.
One company I looked at the bottle stick was just over £4 but the postage was over £5, for one piece of light plastic.

 

[country joe]

Just used to bottle some red, what a difference, great wee tool, all went well with no mess. :

 

[Moley]

I also use just a syphon tube with a rigid racking cane on one end and a tap on the other, but direct the flow down the inside wall of the bottle to minimise the risk of oxidisation.

However, if you're working alone you really need to be able to concentrate on the bottling end and forget about the source.

If your wine still has a sediment then a tilted platform is very useful, but it has to have some means of ensuring the the racking cane can only go up and down but not unexpectedly swing to the side and stir up the gunk. My syphon tube is held by a small hook on the back of the platform.

See here or here.