Is plastic barrels not a good container to store wines..

[rajeevniro]

Hello my name is rajeev and i have a small winery startup in my area.. I usually make fruit wines and till now i havent been quite successful in making wines..
I refered to a wine making book known as joy of home making and according to the recepie given i made the wines but somehow i am not able to make great wine out of it..
Is it not good to store wines in plastic barrels or whats happening..
Some of my wines are not even dinkrelable

 

[Jim Welch]

Depends on the type of plastic I believe, food grade HDPE should work well. PET would work too. Not sure about oxygen penetration in the HDPE but PET is a decent O2 barrier. Of course glass/ceramic or stainless steel is best.
GIGO applies to more than computer languages too my friend.

Edit: correct an auto correct mistake!

 

[sour_grapes]

I think we need some more information:

What recipes have you tried?
What does the wine taste like? That is, in what way is it bad.
How long was it in the plastic barrel?

And welcome to WMT!

 

[Sailor323]

One problem with using barrels for long term storage is head space. Laying the barrels on their sides reduces this and therefore reduces the amount of air in contact with the wine. Also, what on earth is wrong with your wines? Even wines fresh from fermentation should be at least drinkable.

 

[rajeevniro]

One problem with using barrels for long term storage is head space. Laying the barrels on their sides reduces this and therefore reduces the amount of air in contact with the wine. Also, what on earth is wrong with your wines? Even wines fresh from fermentation should be at least drinkable.

I think we need some more information:

What recipes have you tried?
What does the wine taste like? That is, in what way is it bad.
How long was it in the plastic barrel?

And welcome to WMT!

Thank you so much for your concern..
My recepies are as follows
10 kilot of fresh pear
20 liters of water
5 kilos of sugar

I think we need some more information:

What recipes have you tried?
What does the wine taste like? That is, in what way is it bad.
How long was it in the plastic barrel?

And welcome to WMT!

So i tried to make pear wine and my recepies are as follows
Step 1
Fruit in kg - 9kg
Sugar - 3.80kilos
Water - 21.5 ltrs
Pectic enzyme - 1 tsp
Campden tablets - 5 nos
Acid blend - 8 tsp
Sugar calculated in brix - 34

Step 2 ( after taking the must out)
5 campden tablet
3 acid blend
Yeast 3 tblspoon

And following are the pictures of barrels i have used so did you notice anything wrong??

 

[rajeevniro]

One problem with using barrels for long term storage is head space. Laying the barrels on their sides reduces this and therefore reduces the amount of air in contact with the wine. Also, what on earth is wrong with your wines? Even wines fresh from fermentation should be at least drinkable.

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So i tried to make pear wine and my recepies are as follows
Step 1
Fruit in kg - 9kg
Sugar - 3.80kilos
Water - 21.5 ltrs
Pectic enzyme - 1 tsp
Campden tablets - 5 nos
Acid blend - 8 tsp
Sugar calculated in brix - 34

Step 2 ( after taking the must out)
5 campden tablet
3 acid blend
Yeast 3 tblspoon

And following are the pictures of barrels i have used so did you notice anything wrong??

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[rajeevniro]

I think we need some more information:

What recipes have you tried?
What does the wine taste like? That is, in what way is it bad.
How long was it in the plastic barrel?

And welcome to WMT!

expand...

So i tried to make pear wine and my recepies are as follows
Step 1
Fruit in kg - 9kg
Sugar - 3.80kilos
Water - 21.5 ltrs
Pectic enzyme - 1 tsp
Campden tablets - 5 nos
Acid blend - 8 tsp
Sugar calculated in brix - 34

Step 2 ( after taking the must out)
5 campden tablet
3 acid blend
Yeast 3 tblspoon

And following are the pictures of barrels i have used so did you notice anything wrong??

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