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  Testing the 50 ml manual filling apparatus: My Review

  Posted by spitfire on January 28, 2020 at 4:17 pm

  Hello, 

  We are considering purchasing a manual machine to fill 50 ml bottles with our gin.  The volume is not big enough to consider anything automated.  I checked a couple of manual fillers on Amazon, they all share the same design (more or less), and some comments said that the volume of liquid was not accurate which is a bit of a problem.  

  Anyone out there purchased a manual filler for these tiny bottles and had a good experience so far ?

  Thanks.

  Chris

  bluestar replied 4 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  bluestar

  Member

  January 28, 2020 at 5:15 pm

  We have successfully used our Enolmatic with the Mignon kit for filling small bottles. The fill rate is at least as fast as when filling with standard size bottles. Great too if you already use the Enolmatic for filling.

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  southernhighlander

  Member

  January 30, 2020 at 3:41 pm

  The Enolmatic is a great machine.  It fills accurately, has an internal vacuum pump and you can purchase the inline filter option so that you your final filtration is done as the bottles are filled.  It is also very fast for a single spout bottle filler.

   

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  spitfire

  Member

  January 30, 2020 at 3:51 pm

  I have been told yesterday by a reseller that the enolmatic is not recommended as the hoses and other materials are not rated for high proof alcohols.  Interesting.

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  southernhighlander

  Member

  January 30, 2020 at 4:25 pm

  Was he trying to sell you his bottle filler?

  I’ve seen them in lots of distilleries and I sold them to lots of distilleries, when I was selling them. I’ve never heard of anyone having problems.  The factory told me that they were fine for distilled spirits up to 60% or higher, if I remember correctly.

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  wolfhead distillery

  Member

  January 30, 2020 at 6:28 pm

  We use the XpressFill when doing our 50 mLs….works well. It has definitely saved us time/labour on doing the smaller runs of 50 mLs. The guys running it have had no complaints and love it a lot more than filling my hand! 

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  bluestar

  Member

  February 2, 2020 at 11:37 pm

  Depends what you mean by high proof. Should be no problem 100 proof and below. You can easily replace all hoses with other material for higher proof, you can replace nozzle unit with stainless version for that purpose as well. They used to make a replacement pyrex “jar” to swap for the plastic as well, but no longer do. On the other hand, that is seeing “waste” product rather than what is going into the bottle. And you can’t use the standard plastic filter housing at higher proof.

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