Mr Gas
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Hello from sunny southern Alberta 
So when my partner and I, hardly a fair partnership for her as she has the brains and the beauty lol, got started winemaking together we had between the two of us a couple of standard fermenters, and 2 or 3 italian glass carboys and a regular carboy.
Of course, it doesn't take much sampling and you never have enough ready to go what with all the aging and degassing times, So i stumbled upon a facebook ad for a local chap who was selling his fermentor and 3 italian glass carboys and haggled him down to 50 bux CAD, and my beautiful partner said it was a steal, so I told him we would take it. As i was on the road working, she would have to tie up the deal if she wanted to steal it. She offered him 60$ if delivered and they accepted. Later his daughter dropped off the goods.
Turns out he had recently lost his wife, and was getting rid of the equipment as it saddened him remembering the great times him and his wife had together making wine and beer, so he threw in all his remaining equipment, which we thought at the time was a 4th carboy, and since carboys were what we really wanted anyways, we were ecstatic.
She called me on the road and told me about our score, the fourth carboy,and to both of our surprises the fermentor was huge! She thinks it could do 3 or 4 batches at once.She put the MOAF, that's MOTHER OF ALL FERMENTS, aside in the basement for the time being till i got home. Couple of hitches later, when I'd saved up enough to get two wine kits of the same kind, she pulled it out to fire it up, opened the lid to sanitize it, and holy smokes! Inside was a standard fermenter, racking cane and hoses, two and a half bags of corks, at least half a dozen degassing bungs and vents,and a few other miscellaneous items! It was like winemaking jackpot!
So now we have 6 italian glass carboys, and one standard, the MOAF, 3 regular fermenters one of which has a bottom tap we use for filling bottles from, etc.
Seeing as I don't have the looks or brains, I'm more the resourceful one and bankroll of the operation, so at least I have a few redemptive qualities to bring to the partnership lol. I'm also the chief cook and bottle washer, ok maybe just the bottle washer. I get our magnum bottles, and we only use magnums so far, from a small town bottle recycler where he sells them to me for what the gov would pay him, I just have to pick them out
On side tangent, last time I was rerecycling bottles into our stock, I found the perfect one. She was nice green/brown glass and wasn't a screw cap, but alas the original owner was to handicapped to work a corkscrew correctly and the cork was inside the bottle. She said, that bottle is toast you will never get it out, challenge accepted! I filled the bottle with water, bent the end of a coat hanger into a V, got under the cork and pulled up! voila
So, in conclusion it's great to be here, looking forward learning lots, and my first area of study will be vacuum degassing, hence the handle
Cheers!
So when my partner and I, hardly a fair partnership for her as she has the brains and the beauty lol, got started winemaking together we had between the two of us a couple of standard fermenters, and 2 or 3 italian glass carboys and a regular carboy.
Of course, it doesn't take much sampling and you never have enough ready to go what with all the aging and degassing times, So i stumbled upon a facebook ad for a local chap who was selling his fermentor and 3 italian glass carboys and haggled him down to 50 bux CAD, and my beautiful partner said it was a steal, so I told him we would take it. As i was on the road working, she would have to tie up the deal if she wanted to steal it. She offered him 60$ if delivered and they accepted. Later his daughter dropped off the goods.
Turns out he had recently lost his wife, and was getting rid of the equipment as it saddened him remembering the great times him and his wife had together making wine and beer, so he threw in all his remaining equipment, which we thought at the time was a 4th carboy, and since carboys were what we really wanted anyways, we were ecstatic.
She called me on the road and told me about our score, the fourth carboy,and to both of our surprises the fermentor was huge! She thinks it could do 3 or 4 batches at once.She put the MOAF, that's MOTHER OF ALL FERMENTS, aside in the basement for the time being till i got home. Couple of hitches later, when I'd saved up enough to get two wine kits of the same kind, she pulled it out to fire it up, opened the lid to sanitize it, and holy smokes! Inside was a standard fermenter, racking cane and hoses, two and a half bags of corks, at least half a dozen degassing bungs and vents,and a few other miscellaneous items! It was like winemaking jackpot!
So now we have 6 italian glass carboys, and one standard, the MOAF, 3 regular fermenters one of which has a bottom tap we use for filling bottles from, etc.
Seeing as I don't have the looks or brains, I'm more the resourceful one and bankroll of the operation, so at least I have a few redemptive qualities to bring to the partnership lol. I'm also the chief cook and bottle washer, ok maybe just the bottle washer. I get our magnum bottles, and we only use magnums so far, from a small town bottle recycler where he sells them to me for what the gov would pay him, I just have to pick them out
On side tangent, last time I was rerecycling bottles into our stock, I found the perfect one. She was nice green/brown glass and wasn't a screw cap, but alas the original owner was to handicapped to work a corkscrew correctly and the cork was inside the bottle. She said, that bottle is toast you will never get it out, challenge accepted! I filled the bottle with water, bent the end of a coat hanger into a V, got under the cork and pulled up! voila
So, in conclusion it's great to be here, looking forward learning lots, and my first area of study will be vacuum degassing, hence the handle
Cheers!
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