Best wine filters according to redditors

We found 9 Reddit comments discussing the best wine filters. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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u/cryospam · 6 pointsr/mead

So I figured I'd share my bottling setup. I have several of the Minibrew 6.5 Gallon Plastic Conicals which I connect to my Buon Vino Mini Jet. From there I just open the valve, let the filter pump it in, and turn the pump on and off as I bottle, no spillage, no mess (other than what little leaks from the pump but I drain that into the sink).

This has been racked twice previously and then been hit with a crushed campdent tablet to remove most of the yeast cake and the fruit leavings (I make mostly melomels) and to ensure that fermentation is done.

I carefully tip the conical as it empties past the side valve until the filter clogs. I typically end up only losing ~1 cup of VERY cloudy mead at the bottom that I wouldn't drink anyways.

I use number 2 filters, not the 0.5 micron sterile ones, but I'm not making show mead, it's for drinking.

I put it into wine bottles, and cork them with my Portugese Corker with Nomacorc's.

u/tinwhistler · 5 pointsr/mead
  • Primary -- honey, water and yeast are in a container of some sort (bucket, carboy, etc). After a few weeks, fermentation settles down and you have a sediment.
  • Secondary -- Moving the liquid (the must) to a new container, leaving the sediment behind (see note below).
  • Filtering (optional) -- There exist a number of affordable filtering options for the homebrewer. These can filter down to the sub-micron level and in theory remove all the yeast from your brew. Some claim that filtering strips character from your mead, though I have not found this to be the case personally. I can also attest that everything I've filtered has developed no bottle sediment, even after years.

    - or -

  • Fining/stabilizing/cold crashing/etc (also optional) -- There exist a number of non-filtering solutions for stopping yeast activity and helping to get the particulate matter out of suspension and clearing up your mead. Even if you neither filter nor fine/crash your mead, it will eventually clear on its own--but this will take a long time.
  • Bottling -- After the mead clears sufficiently in secondary, you can bottle.
  • Drinking -- Drinking immediately may not give best results, as the mead will be new and will not have mellowed. But you can drink it any time after bottling to years later. Depending on your bottling step, you may (likely) or may not get additional sediment in the bottle, which is fine. Just don't disturb it when you pour.

    Thoughts on secondary: This terminology comes from winemaking, and in fact, no secondary fermentation occurs. But the terminology is standard, and most everyone knows that 'secondary' means moving to a new container. The prime reason for moving to a secondary vessel seems to be to get the must off of the sediment (the lees). The theory is that the yeast will eventually kill itself (autolysis) and add off/bad flavors to your brew. Some say this isn't as big a deal as contemporary wisdom makes it out to be.

    Everyone has their own timelines that they prefer, and the contemporary wisdom (especially on reddit) is to check yeast activity on a semi-regular basis using a hydrometer or a refractometer. I've been brewing for a long time, and have gotten lazy about it. I generally do a '2-2-2 method'. 2 months in primary, 2 months in secondary, 2 months to drink after bottling.

    It simplifies things for me, and keeps me from having to spend a lot of time fooling around with my mead once I have it started. I haven't touched a hydrometer in years and own a refractometer that I've never used. I've never made any bottle bombs, and generally don't care about the exact alcohol content of my mead (though I can give a rough guess as to the content based on the initial amount of honey-to-water ratios that I've used in a batch).
u/bassnote1 · 1 pointr/winemaking

This is the one I use.. It's kinda spendy to start up, $50, but then the pads are about $7-$10 a pack and I can run 6 gallons (biggest batches I make) with no noticeable slowing and no pump needed. But, I DO make sure I'm pretty clear before I filter it.

u/JonMadd · 1 pointr/mead

I use a Vinbrite gravity based filter, essentially pulls the mead into a filter body with a filter pad in there, usually takes a couple of hours for a 1 gal batch to filter since it's pretty slow but it does the job really well.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vinbrite-Mk3-Wine-Filter-Kit/dp/B004NXSPLG/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=vinbrite+filter&qid=1574555889&sr=8-2

u/Asparkman8 · 1 pointr/mead

Oh really? Does it come in a can? This is all I could find Vintner's Best - Elderberry Fruit Wine Base - 128 oz (1 Galllon) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KGRZPQK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_d3ILDbEW4SP80

u/Kalzenith · 0 pointsr/mead

Additives and cold crashing are not the same thing as filtration

Your other options are filtration