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Aging in kegs is not much different from aging in glass. I use standard sanke kegs with a standard 2" ferrule welded on top. There is a quite big family of such kegs: 1/2, 1/4 and 1/6 of US barrel. If you need smaller, you can use corny kegs. Down to 3 gallons corny kegs. And you do not need to...

Reality were slightly different ;) ;) ;) . This weekend I brought: Barbera, 25 gallons of must, fermented on BM4x4 Dolcetta, 25 gallons of must fermented on RC212 Petit Verdot, 60 gallons of must, fermented on BDX Grenache Noir, 150 gallon of must, fermented on D254

I saw that process in middle size winery in Eastern Washington (about 160K gallons of overall tank capacity). Must is fermenting in forklift-able SS cubicals, about 5 x 4 x 4 feet. And they have +/- 30 - 50 of them. And every morning winemaker and hist assistance started from punch down...

I live in Greater Seattle area and make wine from our local Eastern Washington grape. I actually bring grape for other people as well. Plan for 2024 is going to be: oak barrel or 80 gallons of Mourvedre oak barrel or 80 gallons of Carmenere

Rule of thumb is to try to buy them locally used. Usually as "wine making kit" for $50 - 400 with retail price usually in 3 - 4 times more. Thees "kits" come with carboys, fermenters, bungs, wine additions, measuring stuff, hoses, cork and corking stuff. I buy them when I see something...

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Hello all, I have a chance to purchase blue plastic barrels with open lid that were originally used to transport iodine powder. After that, according to seller, they were cleaned using isopropyl alcohol solution. They are food graded, HDPE-2 barrels. Pretty wide used in US home winemaking. I...

Thanks. It appears that heavy version of Eco flextanks (at least Eco) has HD sign near the lid. Somebody sent me a picture of his Eco 30 with HD sign. And later on, I found two pictures of heavy Eco 70 flex tanks (same as mine), with clear sign. I attached them below. Just more knowledge into...

Hello, fellow winemakers, I was able to get 70 Gallon Eco FlexTanks from a person, who has no ideas of what version of Flextank is, maturation vs. heavy. They mentioned, that tanks we used/purchased to keep a fresh water and it has no clear sign of used for winemaking (unless, it was very...