[Growwine] Unusual topic, but

[Ryan]

Very Interesting! -- is it possible that one could do the entire
fermentation of a sweet or off-dry white with the yeast culture living
inside the dialysis tubing, thus allowing one to remove the tubing and
end fermentation before it completes (without having to stop it with
sulfur, etc.)?  Sounds similar to the encapsulated yeast idea.

Ryan

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Vernon Speer <vspeer at mchsi.com> wrote:
> Wayne...just an idea
>
> I've been experimenting (read putzing around) with champagning my fruit
> wines. If you've got the wine and using Andre's bottles with crown
> caps, try this.
> Add a couple of ounces of simple sugar to the wine, now the sneaky
> part, put your yeast in a dialysis membrane tube, I use 10mm, 14,000
> MWCO, sealed at both ends, and drop in the bottle. The yeast eats the
> sugar, but the residue stays in the tube, a little osmosis thing...this
> eliminates the degorging!!! Results have been very encouraging...if for
> no other reason than my degorging efforts to clear the plug have
> resulted in a lot of excitement and an unsightly ceiling in the
> kitchen. Dialysis membrane tubes should be available from any medical
> supply house.
>
> On Jul 2, 2008, at 9:25 PM, Wayne Holland wrote:
>
>  I've been using bottle caps for 20 years. A bit of an uphill climb to
> begin when I brought out a crown capped bottle, but the contents proved
> the concept.  In 1986 a friend and I made a very good barrel of
> Zinfandel from California grapes and we decided to do
> the definitive test. A dozen under cork, a dozen crown capped in 750 mL
> Andres sparkling wine bottles (regular cap). We have opened them blind
> over the years with friends and ALWAYS got the opinion that the crown
> cap tasted 'better'. Luck held and no corks failed. The last 2 went 4
> years ago. Steinlager beer is a great bottle. I do a lot into Corona
> bottles. No label to soak off, easy to see if clean, nice size for
> dinner.
>
> cheers, wayne
> On 2-Jul-08, at 4:03 PM, Larry Paterson wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a Canadian supplier who can access the European
>> size crown caps (the 29 mm size, not the more usual 26 mm we see here
>> in Canada on beer bottles and sparkling wine).  Also, does anyone know
>> where a capper or adaptor could be found to use these caps?
>>
>> I think that keeping 1-3 year wines in such containers (assuming you
>> can locate the right bottles) would be a very wallet -and -environment
>> friendly way to bottle wines.  Think of that riesling or gewurz, vidal
>> or prairie star that you will drink over the next three years.  Why
>> not a bottle cap?
>>
>>
>> Lardy
>>
>> Larry Paterson, lfw, rd, adcc
>> (Little Fat Wino, Roving Drunk, Alcohol Distribution Channels Critic)
>>
>> http://www.littlefatwino.com/
>>
>>
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