Cap & Lees Management

Say goodbye to your days of picking up and shaking carboys.   Use the Lees Stirrer to quickly and easily degas wine, stir your lees back into suspension, or mix in additives. Attaches to a drill for fast, easy stirring. The blades fold down so you can easily insert it into a barrel or glass carboy. When you turn the drill on, the blades expand to create a powerful stirring action. We do not recommend using in a carboy that is topped full. (The stirrer displaces too much liquid and creates a vortex that will send wine out of the top.) In these cases a hollow racking cane works exceptionally well.    Works with 3/8" or larger drills. Stirrer is around 22" long.

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Wine Cap Puncher - This is an ideal puncher for smaller volume winemaking. Perfect for 20 gallon fermenters. Our design features a sealed connection where juice cannot travel back up into the handle. We have seen similar models but always passed on selling them because the design had an opening where the 4 metal wires went back into the hollow handle. When juice inevitably did get back up into that space, the punch was done, you could never clean it. Height is 24". Base is 5 3/16" diameter

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Rugged punch down tool at a fantastic price. Exterior 1" diameter 304-type stainless tubing is polished to a mirror finish. Bottom disc is 12" in diameter with four large holes to decrease pressure during punch down. Features Polished Finish 12" disc made from 10 gauge thick stainless Capped/Sealed end for easy cleaning and sanitizing Constructed from 304-type stainless steel Actual weight is 5lbs. Shipping weight is 30lbs as these ship out as a UPS oversize 1 package. 46" Height

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Rugged punch down tool at a fantastic price. Exterior 1" diameter 304-type stainless tubing is polished to a mirror finish. Bottom disc is 12" in diameter with four large holes to decrease pressure during punch down. Features Polished Finish 12" disc made from 10 gauge thick stainless Capped/Sealed ends for easy cleaning and sanitizing Constructed from 304-type stainless steel Actual weight is 7lbs. Shipping weight is calculated at 70 lbs because these ship at FedEx oversize 2 rates. 72" Height

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Used to stir up lees in a barrel or to ensure a complete mix of so2 or any other addtives, our stainless steel lees stirrer with 24" solid stainless shaft and fold out stainless paddle will get the job done quickly and efficiently.  Connect to drill and use on lowest speed. Included black plastic bung seals barrel while stainless shaft spins freely. 

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This a single replacement blade for our WE590 Stainless Lees Stirrer with Plastic Blades. It's easy to break these off, and so we brought in replacements to avoid having to get a whole new unit! Customers of ours have also gotten creative and created custom tank mixers by attaching these to a long stainless shaft that they have had fabricated. Please Note: This is a single blade, you will need to purchase two if you need to replace both.

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Need to de-gas a carboy full of wine? Say goodbye to swirling your wine for 10 minutes by hand! “The Whip” Wine Degasser will have it done in no time!   De-gas your wines quickly and easily with this lightweight, drill mounted degassing rod for wines. It features a plastic shaft with an offset ""hook"" for quickly degassing wines. To use, mount the sanitized degassing rod on an electric drill. Insert through the neck of the carboy, and the slowly increase the speed of the drill. Reduce the speed or stop as the bubbles come out of solution. As the bubbles subside, you can begin again. Repeat until large amount of bubbles stop coming out of solution. Take care to keep the spinning wings submerged, you do not want to agitate the surface of the wine and oxidize it. Lightweight inexpensive no more swirling for 10 minutes by hand!

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Rugged punch down tool at a fantastic price. Exterior 1" diameter 304-type stainless tubing is polished to a mirror finish. Bottom disc is 12" in diameter with four large holes to decrease pressure during punch down. Features Polished Finish 12" disc made from 10 gauge thick stainless Capped/Sealed end for easy cleaning and sanitizing Constructed from 304-type stainless steel Actual weight is 6lbs. Shipping weight is calculated at 70lbs because these ship as FedEx oversize 2. 72" Height

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