How much equipment have you got?

[Luc]

Ok, ok here we go:

4 30-liter primaries
4 30-liter plastic carboys
2 30-liter glass carboys
3 15-liter glass carboy
6 10-liter glas carboys
5 5-liter glass carboys
8 5-liter water bottles used as carboys

a 81-botlle bottletree
1 avinnatore - wine sulphiter (brand ferrari)
1 hydrometer
1 SG refractometer
1 Brix refractometer
1 Acid titration kit
1 electronic thermometer
1 electronic kitchen scale
4 racking canes
1 autosiphon
1 winethief
1 Kitchen machine
1 steam juicer

2 hand corkers

1 bucket sieve
2 bucket presses

20 buckets

Loads of bungs, airlocks, corks, caps, nylon stockings, plastic handgloves.

Lots of sulphite, citric acid, tartaric acid, malic acid, oak, tannin, blue indicator, pectic enzymes, yeast.
I buy these in large quantities bagged in bags of 1 kilo.

And a few hundred empty bottles.

Luc

 

[Julie]

400 liter ss tank
100 liter ss tank
32 gal hungarian oak barrel
26 gal hungarian oak barrel
11 gal hungarian oak barrel
11 gal american oak barrel
(7) 3 gallon carboys
(56) 5 gallon carboys
(3) 6 gallon carboys
(2) 7 gallon carboys
(3) 13 gallon carboys
(9) 15.5 gal ss kegs
(4) corny kegs

Italian floor corker
(2) portuguese floor corkers
(2) hand corkers
Enolmatic bottler
10" Pall ss filter
Liverani Mini-C pump
#35 basket press
500 Lt. primary
(6) 30 gal primaries
Co2 tank
Nitrogen tank
various bungs, racking canes, hoses, etc.

Kevin

Kevin, LOL, this is ridiculous! My God I need to stop looking for equipment and just come see you.

 

[Flem]

Holy Crap, Kevin!!! That's way too much stuff. You'd better start giving some of that away.

 

[Runningwolf]

(7) 3 gallon carboys
(56) 5 gallon carboys
(3) 6 gallon carboys
(2) 7 gallon carboys
(3) 13 gallon carboys

Kevin I can see having the five gallon carboys but the other ones are just bast*rds and should go away. I'll be a buddy and trade you even some fives I have for the 3-6-7 and 13 gallon carboys.

Julie and Mike, just stay in your own neck of the woods!

 

[Julie]

(7) 3 gallon carboys
(56) 5 gallon carboys
(3) 6 gallon carboys
(2) 7 gallon carboys
(3) 13 gallon carboys

Kevin I can see having the five gallon carboys but the other ones are just bast*rds and should go away. I'll be a buddy and trade you even some fives I have for the 3-6-7 and 13 gallon carboys.

Julie and Mike, just stay in your own neck of the woods!

Dan, I don't think you want to be messin with me and Mike (Flem), right Flem? By the way where does Flem come from? NO COMMENTS FROM ANYONE BUT MIKE.

 

[Flem]

You tell him, Julie. We'll (you and your hulking husband) will kick his arse.


Standard answer is "from your throat", but actually, it's the first 4 letters of my last name. Had that nickname for many years.

 

[Wade E]

Okay Kevin, how many lbs of grapes do you buy approx. each year? Do they just park the refrigerated trailer in your yard? Thats a lot of holding area. Do you ferment in the kegs, age in them with gas on top or both? Why so many corkers, for bottling parties?

 

[Julie]

..................... for bottling parties?

Bottling Party! I'm in. Good idea Wade. Doesn't it go like bottle 2 for Kevin and then one for me

 

[Wade E]

Sounds good there. I just wouldnt want to be you when its cleaning time for all that stuff!

 

[Wade E]

8 - 6's
5 - 5's
3 - 3's
8 - 1's
3 - 3 liters
6 - 5 gallon corny kegs
#30 press
crusher/destemmer
Hanna S02 titrator is in the mail
magnetic Stir Plate
Burets, Pipets, Titration stand, 1000 ml flask, 1000, 500, 250, 100 and 50 ml beaker, full Accuvin test kit, solutions and reagents for anything
Tartaric acid, Citric acid, and acid blend
sulfite, sorbate, SuperKleer, bentonite, ascorbic acid,yeast nutrient, yeast energizer
many different types of oak
Lots of assorted bungs and airlocks to fit them.
47 racking canes ( 2 are mine the rest are for sale) LOL had to throw that in just to throw you off!!
Port. floor corker
Port. Dble lever and corker
corkidor with around 800 corks in it.
185' of racking hose (again I sell it!) hehehe
9 vacuum pumps (8 for sale and I built mine from a whole bunch of left over scraps)
1 SS Valley Vintner filler
1 scale
BrewTrax software
1 Horizontal Thermo Encapsular
1 Malt Mill Barley Crusher
1 3 Tier Brewing Sculpture (All Electric)
Hops of all sorts, grains of all sorts, Beer yeasts of all sorts, Irish Moss, Gypsum
1 Colander
4 - 7.9 gallon primary Buckets with Spigot
C02 tank
Double regulator
1 Whole House Filter
1 Vinbrite Gravity Filter
about 60 gallons of wine aging and about 890 bottles cellared.

 

[Runningwolf]

What I liked about the hobby is the fact I was making dang good wine from kits with less then a couple hundred dollars worth of equipment. Seriously I need some morning after pills for my carboys.

 

[Wade E]

Is the Swiss one the "Rapid" floor corker?

 

[Wade E]

I see they use a straight push rod instead of the angled one coming off the handle so they can close the iris faster as the other ones are coming in on an angle so they cant close early or the pushrod will hit the iris preventing it from working. Nice design!

 

[ffemt128]

Got my magnetic stirrer tomorrow. Great service from the gentleman in the link Wade posted. Total time 2 days.

 

[BobF]

(2) 2g pri
(4) 5g pri
(1) 7.9g pri
(1) 10g pri
(10) 6g carboy
(8) 3g carboy
(18) 1g/4L jugs
(?) smaller bottles for topping quantities
bungs/airlocks for all
various canes, hoses and stirring gear
vacuum racking/degassing pump
MW102 ATC pH/temp meter
morewine A/O SO2 testing
200gX.02g scale
steam juicer + jars
port floor corker
12 cu feet of dedicated freezer space
chemicals, strainers, oak bags, hydros, etc.
56 cases NEW 750 bottles (some full)
30 cases NEW 375 bottles (some full)
Ferrari filler

plus a dedicated basement area (constant 68 deg). Includes deep sink, 10' counter space, spare desks, file cabinets and shelving (pics some day)!!

 

[Runningwolf]

Very nice Bob. I am jealous of all of you new bottles. Did you do a quantity buy at Waterloo?

 

[Tom]

(2) 2g pri
(4) 5g pri
(1) 7.9g pri
(1) 10g pri
(10) 6g carboy
(8) 3g carboy
(18) 1g/4L jugs
(?) smaller bottles for topping quantities
bungs/airlocks for all
various canes, hoses and stirring gear
vacuum racking/degassing pump
MW102 ATC pH/temp meter
morewine A/O SO2 testing
200gX.02g scale
steam juicer + jars
port floor corker
12 cu feet of dedicated freezer space
chemicals, strainers, oak bags, hydros, etc.
56 cases NEW 750 bottles (some full)
30 cases NEW 375 bottles (some full)
Ferrari filler

plus a dedicated basement area (constant 68 deg). Includes deep sink, 10' counter space, spare desks, file cabinets and shelving (pics some day)!!

PICTURE of dedicated space.!

 

[BobF]

Very nice Bob. I am jealous of all of you new bottles. Did you do a quantity buy at Waterloo?

Two wineries in St James. One had the 375s that were prelabeled but not used for $1/case (nasty glue).

The other had 300 cases of green 750s. They decided to switch to screw tops for the wine the 300 cases were for, so they sold them for $4.80/case. I got 56 cases and my buddy got 50.

 

[BobF]

PICTURE of dedicated space.!

Real Soon Now

 

[ibglowin]

You know, the only people that talk about how much they are getting it or how much stuff they got are usually the ones that aren't getting it or who actually ain't got much.......