sparkling wine

joeswine · Jan 24, 2008

first attemp at this and not bad//used muscato as the base wine/dry then slitely back sweetened had the ASTI taste on the noise,took my c/keg left it out side for acouple of really cold days,brought it in,filled it with my wine,hooked up my co2 tank set-up pressurizes to 55lbs. turned the k/keg on its side,and allow the pressure to enter,shooh the container about 11 times,each time the c02 belleched in and at the end resealed it and placed it out side again,,about 26 degrees out there,sunday brought it in reconnected my manafold setup and pushed it up to 5lbs/psi had my beer gun and bottles ready along with the corks and seal plus labels and what a surprise ASTI out of my cellar next step blueberry sparkling wine in a mionth

NorthernWinos · Jan 24, 2008

That sounds like an interesting way to do it....Got any photos????

Wade E · Jan 24, 2008

Joe, how much does this set up cost and how much will a typical set up like this do at a time?

JWMINNESOTA · Jan 24, 2008

A typical Cornelius keg will hold five gallons, a simple system, with reconditioned tank and keg can be had around here for about $150.

Wade E · Jan 24, 2008

Is it easy to use for someone who has no idea?

joeswine · Jan 26, 2008

I would guess the initinal set up ,as jwm put would be close,however you also can buy C/KEGS used,I have a closefriend who is the chief engineer for the hyatt,they were doing a remodel and he walk away with 3 bars full of C/kegs and regulators,but it work out fine for our use, ours held about 4 gallons of muscati,and produced about 12/15 bottles never really counted them ,but it was accurate ,fast as far as production goes,and the end result was on time,i was impressed that we could make it that easliy next step blueberry sparking wine wine set ,bottles ready by next month will have it done may be by then i can take pictures (learn how) and put them on line to share//jp// but what really helped we had a beer master who came to our meeting and he helped adjust the operating pressure,plus his experience in bottling carb,products was a aid and yes its that easy