Kegging Wine

[bikefoolery]

Yeah, so not exactly beer, but very related. Besides Shat mentioned it on the show.

I've got about 11 gallons of red wine I'm going to be kegging into a corny and scotties shortly. I've got a 16cf Argon tank, and a regulator. I was planning on using a simple 1 ft picnic tap for serving.

Any advice from others that have kegged wine?

Thenks,
The Fool

[banjos_n_beer]

Hi,
I got on a wine/mead kick a couple years ago and became overwhelmed with finished batches...Decided that kegging would be easier than bottling. And, yep, it was, I did dark fruit wines such as chokecherry/raspberry, blueberry/cranberry, peach mead, straight mead, etc...etc...For me it was easier to accomplish than kegging beer, still trying to get beer to an acceptable carb. level, for some reason can't get a repeatable process down...but the wines were easier cause I didn't want either alot or any carbonation, but all of the wines ended up with a slight or "petulant carbonation" and the lighter color wines benefited from a modest amount of carbing some reason, maybe thinner bodied?....I will say this....I am to lazy any more to bottle so kegging was a godsend esp. with 7-8 carboys of wine...oh btw. I had pretty much the same set up...just dispensed out of 2 ft picnic tap...

[bikefoolery]

Thanks for your notes. Were you using argon, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide gas to push the wine?

Thanks,
The Fool

[twoskis brewskis]

I like to carbonate any white/ blush style wines I get from my local winery. My wife loves sparkling wine...aka makes her Randy!

[foomench]

Aren't you so trendy? http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/45801

[banjos_n_beer]

In regards to what gas I utilized:
Straight free range, sustainably harvested, carbon offset CO2

[beach]

I gave up bottling beer 1 1/2 yrs ago when I got a kegging set up. So, when my 1st batch of wine was ready to bottle I started to shudder at the idea. I had an old Golden Gate tap set laying around and found a 1/4 bbl keg and racked to that. The beauty of a Golden Gate is that it will serve via gravity. I just purged the air and keep about 1 lb of CO2 on it to keep it from oxidizing.

Beach