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Save a shopping bag. Put bottles in a box. Fill plastic bag with that expanding insulation foam.

Vadai is in Portland? I could save a lot as I live 20 minutes away.

For the record I meant $1.25 per bottle if bought 12 at a time.

I used a 1 micron filter on my viognier (after sparkolloid had settled) and there's extremely fine particles in mine.

No you really can't, but if you have 2 carboys you could split the batch. It will bubble over in a 6 gallon carboy.

This means the pores in the cork are larger than a molecule of salt. Otherwise the water from the wine would leach out of the bottle and concentrate more.

Eventually, probably 3 years, I will get a license and sell wine. Keeping that in mind I'd like to buy some cost effective equipment that I can also use when it's a licensed winery. I've seen motorized destemmers for $850. I'll make near my legal 'home wine making' limit. The rest of the raw...

Hmmm ok. Could you guys helo point me in the right direction? Would FlexTanks work for a lot of this? I ask because they're significantly cheaper than SS.

Time is relative. The faster you're moving or the closer you are to an object with a large mass, the slower time FOR YOU will be. If you orbited a black hole time will pass more slowly for you than someone who's a light year away.

Anyone want to talk about quantum chromodynamics?

Most people don't know that Plutonium is actually a naturally occurring element and nuclear reactors are natural and organic. Or at least the Oklo Reactor is http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor Uranium 235 is what's normally found in nuclear bombs but if you start...

Well my 5 acre vineyard will start producing next year. I was meaning I'd be doing a whole bunch of 'garbage can' like fermenting. I don't know how much 5 acres will produce but I'm trying to gather stuff now. Definitely WAY WAY too much do to glass. I guess another way to put it is...

The swing top are perfectly fine to reuse. If the gaskets are old and dried you can get new ones. I use the swing top for all my non-wines like skeeter pee, Someone else should comment on the screw top.

Does head space matter if you have sufficient so2 levels?

Well I'll be doing all whites so pressing after fermentation isn't something I'll need to do.

So do you just run star san through that to clean it?

How much are you talking about? Less than 1/4 gallon would concentrate the flavors and up the alcohol. If you're thinking 1 gallon less then I think you'd really mess up the chemistry.

So right now I ferment in 8 gallon plastic containers. Then transfer to 6 gallon carboys. This works well for small batches and such. But I'm wanting to scale up now. I see a lot of people ferment in food grade garbage cans or large plastic barrels (40+ gallons etc.) How do you guys go about...

Yes, much like adding carbon to iron. The iron won't be a larger volume but it will weigh more as it turns to steel.

10 gallons won't make 60 bottles.