Possibly the dumbest question you will hear today
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I used to use a turkey baster but now use a syringe with the blunt filling needles you get in inkjet refill kits. They're great for taking small samples and nice and easy to sanitise. I'd love it if they did 30 cm ones so you could take out an airlock and take a sample through the hole to reduce oxidation.
An Ankoù
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Equally pertinent, what do you do with the wine in the hydrometer jar when you've tested it and how do you make up the ullage in the demi-john?
Check out lab pipettes. I wonder if the make small hydrometers and test cylinders. Mine takes 100 ml to fill it, what a waste.
Why not use a piece of tubing attached to the syringe and fit through the airlock hole in the bung,
Now keep it clean....Ullage in a demijohn!!
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A vessel with a tap?
Cheapo turkey baster from Wilko.
An Ankoù
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Indeed: Item 2 makes especially interesting reading, as does the etymology.Ullage in a demijohn!!
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Ullage - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ullage
Ullage or headspace is the unfilled space in a container, particularly with a liquid. Contents. 1 Etymology; 2 Wine and spirits; 3 Beer; 4 Rocketry; 5 Industrial use ...
Etymology · Beer · Rocketry
Even so, my "What do you do with the wine in the sample jar when you've tested it?" was an attempt to beat Taff at "Possibly the dumbest question".
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I use one of these....
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This for me.
You may have just about succeeded. Brings to mind a pic in my ancient copy of Berry's "First Steps", which shows him, bow-tied and ready for a formal dinner, sampling (or testing for readiness) wine from, if I recall correctly, a row of DJs, with a caption somewhat along the lines of (again, if I recall correctly) "Pleasant job, this."
So, who wins the prize: Taff or An Ankoù? Anyone care to vote?
PS. Actually, I suspect neither of you win. I recall words from, I suspect, SWMBO, along the lines of "that's the most stupid question I've ever heard". I can't recall the question, but it doesn't matter because I wouldn't have dared to argue the point.
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