need a cheap filter

Tater, You can buy most of the equipment you need to filter your plum wine at Home Depot. More info here

Tater - Not to discourage you from making your own filter, but if this wine is still "thick as mud", a filter really isn't the answer. Unless the wine is reasonably clear, trying to run it through a filter will just clog up the filter and make a mess.

The primary ingredient needed for clearing wine is patience. At six months, though, you ought to be seeing reasonable progress. If you did not use any pectic enzyme earlier in the process, that would be a good thing to try. If that doesn't help, I'd recommend either bentonite or the hot-mix Sparkalloid. Both of those are pretty mild in terms of their effect on the wine (from what I've read, anyway). As a last resort, try a package of Super-Kleer. Try one thing at a time, and give it two weeks or more to see if it's having any effect. If you can't see any change in two weeks, try the next one.

Doug

well "thick as mud" isn't a clearly defined technical term. but i think i'll be getting a cheap filter setup together in the comming months. I did add peptic enzyme at the beginning, but did not know it was meant for clearing(aside from haze) I got some sparkaloid and might give that a try after i do some gross filtering. I was thinking of running it thru a 50 micron and then maybe a 20-25 micron to see if there is improvement. with that large a size, I'd guess that i wouldnt have too much problem with clogging, the earlier rackings did have quite a bit of sediment, but it looks like I have something that wont settle with just gravity. the past 4 rackings there has not been a noticeable change in clarity, or lack of.

well "thick as mud" isn't a clearly defined technical term. but i think i'll be getting a cheap filter setup together in the comming months. I did add peptic enzyme at the beginning, but did not know it was meant for clearing(aside from haze) I got some sparkaloid and might give that a try after i do some gross filtering. I was thinking of running it thru a 50 micron and then maybe a 20-25 micron to see if there is improvement. with that large a size, I'd guess that i wouldnt have too much problem with clogging, the earlier rackings did have quite a bit of sediment, but it looks like I have something that wont settle with just gravity. the past 4 rackings there has not been a noticeable change in clarity, or lack of.

Why not just get a mini jet filter system, they're pretty cheap and work awesome.

One of these

ummm, the subject line says it all. mini jets are not what i'd call cheap. $25 would be cheap. $50 is close to cheap. $150+ is not.

Tater, do you already have the pump? Housings and a decent vane pump will get up to $150 pretty quick. If you are looking for small quantiities of filtering like

I currently have collected the parts for the water cartridge filter setup, and passed my wine thru a 50 micron filter. everything worked correctly, except that 50 micron was too big. i'll be picking up the next smaller filter and see if that clears it up.

I was planning on posting some pics on the setup wghen i had it running, but was also cooking out bratwursts at the same time and wanted to deal with that. I think the total was all under $30. even if it doesnt work, i can use the filter for water filtration.