I just had a conversation with a winemaker looking for a pump. After he shopped around, he started to realize that the $13,000.00 price tag on our Waukesha 130 is not as bad as he thought.
    Dont be confused. You still need two pumps in your winery. Just about every operation either does or will. for a second pump, we offer the Yamada series of air- operated diaphragm pumps. These are the most cost- effective and maintenance free pumps in the world. These cost less than the former low- budget leader impeller pumps. Food grade, brick simple and no sparks. This pump is even good in distilling.
     But back to the Waukesha:
     "First the earth cooled. Then the dinosaurs came; But they all died because they were fat. Then came the ice age. Brrrrrrr."- Airplane
     The Alpha and Omega in the single most versatile and gentle and powerful pump in the wine industry is the Waukesha. When coupled to our must sump (about $6,000), it serves as the strongest AND gentlest must pumping system in the world. I personally have seen North Fork Merlot fruit pumped through a 50', 3" hose (up 12 feet also) and the Waukesha- pumped must exiting that hose was as unharmed as the just- destemmed and lightly crushed merlot wine grapes that just fell out of the destemmer- crusher. Ask tom Burns at Boordy Vineyards in Maryland. When he switched to our system, he "definitely noticed lower solids..". That does not happen with rough pumps. 
     When processing white wines:
     Pumping crushed whites directly to the press with our system is a breeze. If your press has axial feed, all the better. Pump the whites into the press and use your Yamada to drain the press pan.
     After Harvest:
     The Waukesha starts to really shine. "The only (transfer) pump in the industry that does not harm overall wine quality is the Waukesha." Chris wirth, Hunt Country Vineyards. Riaan Rousso at Lovingston Winery in Virginia handles his harvest with gravity and bins, but he uses his Waukesha to transfer wine.
     If you could bottle, filter (NOT DE), transfer, top barrels, and pumpover with the same, excellent pump, wouldn't you? I would. And I will.

See pumps here: http://www.enotools.com/pumps.html
 

Well, this might be the best news since, skip that- sorry.

Carlsen & Associates are offering a new tank cleaner that uses throughput or volume to clean tartrates off the walls of your tanks. With this $1,799.00 item, you avoid the purchase of a $4500.00 pressure washer and can stick to your $700.00 pressure washer for general cleaning.

The Bovine has large cleaning nozzles and works on anything from 550 to 5000 gallons. Hook it to your pump and recirculate strong caustic, strong citric, or hot water to keep your workers out of the tank.

Email us to get more information.

     By now, most of the wines in our territory are fast asleep either in barrel or tank and are on the way to becoming another vintage.
     During the coming months, you may have time to think about your wine filtration equipment, pumps, and the general state of your hardware around the winery. We offer complete wine hose assemblies with extra long tri clover hose barbs, double clamps, and collars to prevent dragging damage. The tri clover clamps we sell come with either single or double hinge arrangements, and according to Sean McRitchie, "(These) just rock".  He has yet to break one of ours.
     If you own a Puleo bladder press and a Waukesha must pump from Carlsen & associates, you are enjoying the fact that when you bought the press, for the price quoted, you got the pan and acreen that double as a pumpover sump. And your Waukesha winery do- all pump is smartly handling the task of pumpovers without increasing solids. Well done!
     When the whites have gone through fermentation and you are considering some blending, will you wish you had picked up that square, stackable, portable wine tank from Custom Metalcraft? The TranStore tanks are still in stock, most commonly in the 350 and 550 gallon sizes and act as combination tanks. They are ideal for wine blending, transport, storage, and bottling. And let's face it, every winery needs at least one extra tank.
     Now is the time to take a good, hard look at what used winery equipment you have to offer up on the free classifieds section of enotools.com. We list it for free to draw traffic to our site. You dont have to pay us a cut to handle the sale because we don't.
     We still have barrels if you cut yourself short. And if you need to do some testing with oak alternatives, used barrels or older American Oak barrlel are the perfect place for French Oak atves, chips, dust, and sticks.
     Sparflex capsules should be on your radar for the next bottling of your wine. We have some great ways to finish your wine packaging including closures from Amorim. Wine capsules come in a variety of colors.
     Good luck with the holidays!