How can I separate the wine from the reminisce after the fermentation process?

Question

I want make wine as a hobby and normally use an empty wine bottle for fermentation but how can I siphone the wine out without distrurbing the waste of the yeast?

Answer 1

Usually, it's done in larger batches than one bottle. Then you use a "racking cane" which is a convenient tool for siphoning. You can get or rig something up that's more bottle sized. If you take the tube you're siphoning with, and crimp the end that goes into the wine, and punch a couple holes in the side about 1/4" from the tip, it allows you to siphon from a little higher up than the bottom so you don't suck as much of the sludge off the bottom.
Rack your wine every 2 weeks or so for about a month and you'll have sediment free wine with minimal need of subsequent filtration. One bottle at a time leaves a large proportion to go to waste, so you kind of need to decide if going to bigger batches so less is wasted in the quest for clarity and cleaner wine, or just accept that there will be *some* amount of sediment in your finished product.

Answer 2

Disturbing it isnt really a problem as long as you screen it properly.. i have a buddy that actually l uses a clean, and i stress the clean part, sock.. Although I you go to a specialty store you can by what they call cheese clothe.. Its allows the wine to filter through but not the particles...Lots of back packers use this to purify there water...

Answer 3

Read a bit about the processe and look for all the info necessary:
http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/
http://freespace.virgin.net/roger.simmonds/homepage.htm
http://www.sentex.net/~bacchus/faq.html
http://www.pcurtis.com/homewine.htm