The Vinbrite Filter Kit for Wines and Spirits - assembly and operation 

Glad to know that you are pleased with the Vinbrite kit. The Prime pads are a multi purpose pad, not only helping more wine to go through the other pads, but they are also great for clearing a spirit wash. We changed corporate colours from Red to Blue 4 years ago as it was felt a more modern colour.

Make sure that side A of the Support Disc is facing the pad, and the the 3 lugs on the disc are located in the 3 slots on the body. Tighten the locking ring with the spanner, and this should resolve any leaking from the body.

My siphon hose fits perfectly in it.

jui Small I would its never going to hurt to be clean . about to use mine today my flush will be the no rise sanatizer

+lebammabel The Crystalbrite Pads have a micron rating of 1.14 - 5.24, with a mean pore size of 1.73

When we filter liqueurs, we use a filter paper folded and placed in a funnel. These are coarse filtration media and are really the only ones that could handle a liqueur due to the viscosity of the liquid. A filter pad would quickly clog and block. This is a wine and spirit filter, which is completely different to liqueurs. You may get away with the Prime Pad, as this is a coarse grade pad, but it is still more expensive than using filter papers to achieve the same result.

Could you do a video of that showing how to filter liqueurs please

There are no dioxins used in the manufacture of our filter pads. All the pads we produce are manufactured to be used in the food and beverage industry as well as in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry. The pads are manufactured of specially selected raw materials such as purified and bleached cellulose, inorganic natural filter aids, like kieselguhr, and perlite. All our filter pads fulfill the requirements of Regulation 1935/2004/EC, BfR Recommendation Ch XXXVI, FDA CFR 21 176.170 and Food Chemical Codex standards, as applicable. Furthermore, we confirm that the filter sheets are in conformation with the regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 and (EC) No 2023/2006 of the European Parliament. They are also made according to the rules of Quality Management System EN ISO of Quality Management System EN ISO 9001. Our pads contain no live organism or animal-based extracts. Therefore, our filter pads can be used for HALAL certified foodstuffs. We also confirm that we are KOSHER certified. They do not contain alcohol or raw materials that were in contact with alcohol and the raw materials of all products we used are GMO and Allergen free. Our pads are totally safe to use.

Harris Filters well thanks for the comprehensive response. I will certainly consider these filters as an option for my wine making. Thanks again.

The pads are designed to be discarded after use.

@@harrisfilters4109 I want to buy this in India (Bangalore) but I don't see a seller, export a

The Original pad is the Crystalbrite Pad. This is a high grade technical pad that will filter wine quickly and efficiently, but these are expensive to manufacture. We therefore introduced a cheaper alternative pad - Filtabrite. This is a thicker pad and will produce wines with the same clarity - but it will be slower in operation. We also introduced a pre-treatment pad called Prime pads. These are designed to filter out sticky particles that would otherwise block a filter pad. they are ideal when filtering country wine as they will take a large amount of debris out the wine. This will enable more wine to go through the Crystalbrite or Filtabrite pad at a faster rate. The Prime Pads are not designed to clear a wine, just prepare it for filtration. If you have a reasonable clear wine, then you do not need to use a Prime Pad beforehand. If you want a fast flow, then go for the Crystalbrite pad. If you don't mind a slower filtration time, go for the Filtabrite Pad. We find that 75% of the pad sales are for Crystalbrite.

@@harrisfilters4109 This is the information I've been searching for. You ought to include exactly this summary information about what pads for what purposes in the kit instructions.

The filter housing only holds 1 pad at a time and you may not need 3 pads to clear a wine - it all depends upon the clarity of the wine that you are filtering. If your wine is clear to start with and you just want to polish it to commercial standards, then just passing through either the Crystalbrite or Filtabrite will be enough. If your wine is not clear and has a lot of haze, then first pass through the Prime pad to remove the sticky particles before using either the Crystalbrite or Filtabrite. You do not need to use both the Crystalbrite and Filtabrite pads - only 1 of these. Both will achieve the same end result. One is a thick pad which will take longer to filter through the pad material and costs less to manufacture. The other uses the latest technology to produce a thin pad that allows fast filtration - but these cost more to manufacture.

+Alex “Alex845” M We have not found that the Vinbrite Filter airs or oxidises a wine.

@@harrisfilters4109 can you fit a syphon tube to the bottom of the filter? Dropping the liquid from a height like that is 100% aerating it.

Was thinking the same thing

These are a legacy product when the pad material contained asbestos (way back in 1979). They were placed under the pad to catch the asbestos fibres and stop them going in your wine. These are no longer required, but some customers still want to use them to stop any fibres from the pad entering the filtered wine. However, if you pad rinse with 2 litres of water, then the Vinpapers are not necessary.

You can attach a tube to the outlet if you like to help prevent contact time, but in the many decades selling this filter, this has not been an issue. In fact you have a higher chance of oxidation from degassing a wine.