The Stainless Steel Mix-Stir

This thing is excellent. Stir with the help of a cordless drill and its easy to clean. No worries about dropping a carboy while shaking to mix. Well worth the price.Yes, you could likely make your own from a dipstick in that old caprice classic sitting in the neighbor's front yard, but it would likely change the flavor of your brew and leave a residue in your mouth. This is stainless steel and has never been in motor oil. Buy this instead.

I used to use a aeration stone to add oxygen to my wort...However, oxygen tanks got very expensive....the Mix-Stir solved the problem. Just chuck into my drill and oxygenate my wort...works great!!

Purchased this for mixing epoxy. So far it has held up great and is easy to clean. I would recommend!

Wish I had discovered this baby 10 years ago!!! Great for mixing up almost anything. Works great for mixing in 1 gallon bottles, 2 gallon, 5 gallon bottles as well as paint cans, buckets etc... I thought it would have been better if the plastic “wings” were metal “wings” until I started using it. I since discovered that if the “wings” were metal instead of plastic it would over time break the plastic bottles I use it in. It mixes so well that you have to be careful that you don’t mix your stuff to fast or it will fly out of your bottle. In the past, I had to pick up heavy 5 gallon bottles and shake the hell out of the bottles to mix and I might add half as well as this stainless steel “rod” does. Life is a dream now when it comes to mixing. Super easy to clean.

I have 3 glass 6.5 gallon carboy’s and assumed this would fit inside. The openings are 1.25 inches. If your carboy has a 2” opening it should be fine.

Bought this to aerate my mead and it does a great job! Shaking oxygen into our wort used to be one of the hardest parts of brewing. We wanted to use our big 5 gallon glass jugs but the worry they would fall and break while full was always super stressful, but this has made things much easier!It hooks onto any drill and just let it go. I'd recommend starting off slow to make sure you don't spin your liquid all over the place, but I was able to hold it at a good medium speed without anything getting thrown around. It also fits right into the carboy top so no matter what sort of container you are using this should fit.

A friend did a demo of this in our brew club meeting. Seemed very effective so I bought one. It was easy to attach to my drill. It definitely got the wort churning. My yeast kicked off fine and I hit my target FG. I can't say it was all due to that but I'm sure it helped. Time will tell.

Reaches all the way down into carboy bottles and aerates the must perfectly.Cleans up easilyStart it at the surface, build a good must-tornado and then push down further aerating extremely efficiently.Plastic mixing fins won't mar the interior of the glass.Very handy, very efficient, better than picking up a 6 gallon carboy and shaking it!I definitely recommend this stirrer! No reservations or complaints.

Purchased for wine degassing. Chuck this up and lower into carboy. When the plastic "cap" touches bottom, mark the wand at the carboy lip and at the chuck. Now you have a repeatable reference for depth. I highly recommend using a plastic carboy cap with this...it's a little extra insurance and keeps it centered. Run on low speed/high torque and raise and lower through the wine a couple of times until you get a nice smooth vortex then secure the drill in a clamp of some kind if possible (saves your back) at about 3/4 deep and just let it run. I use a small C clamp to set the speed to the fastest I can before overflow and run it for 15 minutes. Have a glass of wine and watch it spin. Very simple to clean with hot soapy water...just dunk in a bucket of hot soapy water and spin it for a minute...then rinse well AND DRY. Easy peasy. Sure you can build one but my time is worth more than $30.

It’s steel and appears to be sturdy enough to last for along time. Much easier using this and a drill instead of burning out your shoulders stirring by hand for 10-15mins.

Made our wine degassing process so much easier. A big suggestion though is watch your drill speed as it can make a big mess quickly if you’re not careful!

I was kind of disappointed with this initially. At first it didn’t seem the “fins” were opening properly. It would only move liquid in one direction. After using it for quite a few minutes it started working in reverse, like it just needed to get used to open properly. Then it started to really work well, but at this point we had been at it for a while. Hoping future uses it works really good now that it’s been used and the fins kick out properly.4 stars because in the end it started working properly, however in the beginning it worked as well as a spoon.

A must have tool if you’re getting serious about wine/mead making. There is a huge difference between de-gassing by hand and with this tool. Makes the job completely effortless and ensures your brew is mixed and de-gassed properly.