8D-G21Y-SRPZ Wine/Beer DeGasser

Works like a charm. Easy to use and clean. You will need a drill. Durable plastic.

Effective and economical degasser (I paid $20). Long enough (about two feet) for standard carboys/buckets. Seems to effectively degas six gallons of wine in about two or three minutes using a drill at medium speed and changing spinning direction every 30 seconds. Easy to clean/sanitize and so far feels fairly durable, especially for the price. As a side note, I use the glass carboys, so I sort of cover the opening of the carboy when extracting the degasser to prevent splatter. My only issue was the rod was too thick for one of my cordless drill's chuck, so make sure it will fit your drill before purchasing. If you have a quick change chuck drill, you can buy a keyless drill chuck adapter, but again make sure the adapter will fit at least a 10mm or 3/8 inch bit to be able to hold this degasser.

Works as promised and is far easier to keep clean than the bottle brush that I had used for the same purpose. In my use, I've noticed that you want to hold it up off the bottom of the carboy or it will begin to bend in very odd ways. It will also begin to bend if you run the drill at very high speeds. It takes two hands to insert into the neck of a carboy (one to hold the drill and one to squeeze the green filaments together a bit). Finally, the shaft is not strong enough to support the weight of the drill as it sticks out the top of a carboy. That means you can leave it there without holding it while you wait for the bubbles to go down before another spin. With regards to the bottle brush mentioned above: before I came along this, I had cut the loop off the end of a new bottle brush. Then you can chuck the wire stem in a drill and use it the same as this tool. It may even work more quickly, but the big draw back is that it's far more difficult to clean and sanitize than this tool. I have no plans to go back to my old method and until I can afford a vacuum setup, will stick with this handy tool.

I got this for my second batch of wine. For the first batch, I thought that I'd worked out all the gasses with a spoon and some good ol elbow grease! Not the case, while the wine is light and refreshing, it's obvious that I'd bottled it without fully degassing the batch. I got this guy, as I'd mentioned, for my second batch. I've had a bottle or two prior to this review, but the batch really hasn't hit its date of maturity. However, I can confidently say that the batch does not have the same gassy issue as the first batch. Good product, easy to use!

I've used the degasser for over a year and its an excellent product. The name is confusing because it also aerates or oxygenates both beer, mead, and wine. Yes, I brew all three drinks and this "whip" does both aerator and degass very well. I simply spray or dip it in your sanitized solution and you're all set. I usually "whip/stir" for about 3-5 minutes, that works for me; the more powerful your drill the less time you'll spend using it. You'll notice fermentation begins faster and results are very consistent. It's easy to wash or rinse and stores easily. Say good-bye to yeasty drinks (degass) and expense oxygen tanks (aerating systems) and say hello to the very affordable Clean Bottle Express Wine/Beer DeGasser!

I've just gotten into fruit wine making and have only used this in one-gallon glass jugs. It fits, but with little room to spare. I'm not sure how that affects the degassing since it can really whip the wine around if I want it to. To keep from spilling any wine, I just slide a funnel over the plastic before attaching the drill. As long as I hold the funnel down on the glass, it works excellently to keep the wine from spilling. See pics. I may have gotten the funnel idea from another reviewer. I can't recall at this point, but I don't mean to take credit for the idea if I didn't come up with it. The degasser is exactly 24 inches long, and the part that goes in the drill is about 5/16 or 11/32 in diameter. The plastic twine is 6.5 inches from top to bottom and about 5 inches in diameter side-to-side. You can actually slide the plastic through the three holes in the main tube for adjustment or cleaning. You can't shove it down into the tube to shorten it, though.

I purchased this item with the intention of using it in conjunction with my cordless drill to oxygenate beer wort as I was tired of shaking around heavy carboys and being unsure about whether I had sufficiently oxygenated it. Now oxygenation is as simple as dunking the end of the degasser into the carboy and pressing the trigger on my drill. A very intense vortex is created almost immediately but there is much less risk of spillage as when I shook the carboys to create this result. Also, using this item I am able to time how long I oxygenate and, consequently, am able to create more consistent, repeatable results. I found that the lag time in producing noticeable fermentation was reduced significantly after oxygenating in this way. In fact, now I often see fermentation start within two or three hours of pitching the yeast, which was a serious improvement from the 12 - 18 hours I had before. Moreover, clean-up is quite easy as long as one washes off the unit after use. I have been very happy with this purchase and would certainly purchase another one if something happened to my current unit.

There's really not too much to this. Simply made, works exactly like it's supposed to, easy to use, seems pretty durable and the price is great in case it breaks. All around a great degasser! For cleanup, which was the most fun part, I just dipped it in the sink of starsan and water and spun the drill. Easy peasy!

Spin your bubbles away quickly and easily with this. Be careful not to spin too fast near the surface! UPDATE: lasted 20 months, and both ends broke out of the tip. Still works, but the weed whipper cord is not so tough after all.

Product was good but unfortubately there were an additional £14 to pay for custom which were not advertised on Amazom pushing the price to high for a plastic stick.

Im a little worried about the plastic stem and its durability. But i didnt like leaving my old wand, with its stainless stem, in the wine for longer periods.

It works really well to degas, however, when using a drill it's best used at low speeds in order to avoid overflow when degassing.

This thing cuts down the degassing time by a lot. I don't know how I degassed my wines without it. The only thing is that the wand is starting to warp a bit.