[BobE]

Do storage and wine - make sense 
I seem to drink it as quickly as I get it 

Ah Mos, well, After the first FV, you need to put it someware to start the second deeper process "matricll...."  something.  This takes the wine to the high levels that you expect.  What you buy has been through that process.  However I do find that cellar 7 can be drunk after about 20 days very easily.  So you need to be 30 odd bottles ahead of yourself.   

[Auntiemogs]

Do storage and wine - make sense 
I seem to drink it as quickly as I get it 

Ah Mos, well, After the first FV, you need to put it someware to start the second deeper process "matricll...."  something.  This takes the wine to the high levels that you expect.  What you buy has been through that process.  However I do find that cellar 7 can be drunk after about 20 days very easily.  So you need to be 30 odd bottles ahead of yourself.   

I tried my iBrew when I syphoned it off after day 5 and I have to say, even then it was as good as the £5 bottles I but from the supermarked (usually reduced from a tenner).  I shall try to sit on my hands and leave it to do its thing but it could be a close call.   

I shall try to remember to put some in a milk carton (a la Growster) for you Mum. 

[BobE]

Do storage and wine - make sense 
I seem to drink it as quickly as I get it 

Ah Mos, well, After the first FV, you need to put it someware to start the second deeper process "matricll...."  something.  This takes the wine to the high levels that you expect.  What you buy has been through that process.  However I do find that cellar 7 can be drunk after about 20 days very easily.  So you need to be 30 odd bottles ahead of yourself.   

I tried my iBrew when I syphoned it off after day 5 and I have to say, even then it was as good as the £5 bottles I but from the supermarked (usually reduced from a tenner).  I shall try to sit on my hands and leave it to do its thing but it could be a close call.   

I shall try to remember to put some in a milk carton (a la Growster) for you Mum. 

Auntie, start the next batch tomorrow.  From this first batch deep archive 6 bottles, dated.  Corks down.  From every batch do that.  Home made wine isnt worth keeping for more than a year, two at the most.  Commercial wines are sterelised and so last longer.  So you can start to raid your deep archive Autum 2014.  By which time you will have a continuos streem of new wines arriving as the old ones are being used. (Hic!)

[Capt Zero]

Do storage and wine - make sense 
I seem to drink it as quickly as I get it 

  That's my problem...but if you don't put the odd bottle away your always after your own tail.

[Auntiemogs]

Mmm....I do have another beer fermenter which is empty at the mo....

No, I must resist.  I have the 15 bottle iBrew, 30 bottle Muntons and 50 pints of Mexican beer on the go already.
Just as well I usually look drunk anyway, nobody will be able to tell the difference! 

[BobE]

Mmm....I do have another beer fermenter which is empty at the mo....

No, I must resist.  I have the 15 bottle iBrew, 30 bottle Muntons and 50 pints of Mexican beer on the go already.
Just as well I usually look drunk anyway, nobody will be able to tell the difference! 

An empty fermenter is almost a sin. 

[BobE]

Well the sun is over the yardarm.... (Pulls a cork, pop!!.    )

[Auntiemogs]

An empty fermenter is almost a sin. 

Oh, the guilt! 

You two are terrible, if only I wasn't so easily led! 

Unscrews bottle - cheers! 

[BobE]

An empty fermenter is almost a sin. 

Oh, the guilt! 

You two are terrible, if only I wasn't so easily led! 

Unscrews bottle - cheers! 

Cheers Auntie, chink

[Capt Zero]

I can't have a sniffer right now,   (tiss only 05.40) I have to drive later...but I'll catch you guys up around 15.00 

[paulsol]

i used to use something similiar.....wine used too be sold in a 20l collapsible plastic containe housed in a square cardboard box...i used these for wine and beer...the big bonus is you can exclude all air...less oxidization
i reckon the less the wine contacts air..the greater the wine quality..by a long way!!...same with beer

[Auntiemogs]

i used to use something similiar.....wine used too be sold in a 20l collapsible plastic containe housed in a square cardboard box...i used these for wine and beer...the big bonus is you can exclude all air...less oxidization
i reckon the less the wine contacts air..the greater the wine quality..by a long way!!...same with beer

Those are the ones Paul.  I went for the 5L & 10L as they'll (hopefully) be easier for me to move. 

[paulsol]

...the best container i used for wine was my 200l blue drum of Damson wine...lol
re. post...."Roll out the barrel..."

[Auntiemogs]

...the best container i used for wine was my 200l blue drum of Damson wine...lol
re. post...."Roll out the barrel..."

Ah yes,  I have read it but felt too inadequate to leave a comment!    Festival part at yours then!   

[BobE]

200 litres  !! Jeez,  :blink:


The sun is over the yardarm Auntie.