New filter

[SpudtheBinx]

My better half got me a boots filter off ebay with 100 filter pads, it cost her less than £6 Anyway, today after cleaning it up and sterilising it, I ran a gallon of rioja through it, expecting it to be a slow drip drip drip affair but it ran through the filter almost as fast as it takes just to rack it. Are they always this fast? I know it worked because I checked the pad afterwards and I could see plenty of stuff and this was wine I would say had cleared nicely. Wow I love this filter! The way you syphon with it to start with makes it easier than racking

[fatbloke]

My better half got me a boots filter off ebay with 100 filter pads, it cost her less than £6 Anyway, today after cleaning it up and sterilising it, I ran a gallon of rioja through it, expecting it to be a slow drip drip drip affair but it ran through the filter almost as fast as it takes just to rack it. Are they always this fast? I know it worked because I checked the pad afterwards and I could see plenty of stuff and this was wine I would say had cleared nicely. Wow I love this filter! The way you syphon with it to start with makes it easier than racking

I suspect that if you tried to run some wine through that was still partly cloudy, then you'd soon see how quickly it can clog up!

I also have one of these, and it should be bourne in mind that they're for "polishing" the wine, not removing sediment like that.

Hence it sounds like you'd already done a good job of clearing the wine so there wasn't that much to filter out of it....

regards

JtFB

[lockwood1956]

Yes indeed

clear wine runs through the filter fast.....

Filters are used to polish clear wines, you can filter out some cloudiness, but its a real slow job, and not what the filter was designed for.

regards
Bob

[wurzel]

You sure you got filter "pads" there and not filter "papers"....just sounds like a heck of a lot of pads for someone to have

[SpudtheBinx]

Yes they are papers.

[wurzel]

Yes they are papers.

Thought so......this is what you need:

http://www.harrisfilters.com/boots.htm

[BorderTerroir]

Here's a further tip, if you put the empty demijohn on the floor and the wine to be polished on a kitchen work top
then you get a decent static head, this will help the flow rate.

[SpudtheBinx]

Wurzel, thanks for the post about the pads. Whats the advantage of the pads over the papers?

BorderTerrier, thanks for the tip, thats exactly what I did. Perhaps thats why I was suprised at the speed of the filter as I normaly dont syphon over such a drop but I got a good long piece of tubing on saturday do I could do such a thing

[wurzel]

Wurzel, thanks for the post about the pads. Whats the advantage of the pads over the papers?

Well I'll be perfectly honest with you SB I am surprised the paper worked at all, your wine must have been very well prepared indeed!

The pads should do a much better job of polishing and I normally am able to put 2 galls through one pad with no trouble

[SpudtheBinx]

Yeah the wine was well cleared, it's just a shame that I tasted it after filtering and bottling. Still a few folks at work said they would cook with red wine vinegar

[Mamgiowl]

It's a very good meat tenderiser, so if you can store some for you culinary adventures.

[Old un]

I have a boots filter, and a few filter papers; I would like to know if you can still get filter pads to fit, our Boots stopped selling wine gear a long time ago

Happy new year to you all

[Richard S]

I have a boots filter, and a few filter papers; I would like to know if you can still get filter pads to fit, our Boots stopped selling wine gear a long time ago

Happy new year to you all

Yes you can still get them, most home brew shops stock them.