PET carboys and steeping

Dave

I'm sort of in the same boat. Started late this summer with my grandma's muscadine bush. She wanted to retire from making jelly. I look forward to the 30# of muscadines it produces each year. Any way I bought a starter kit but found myself wanting to start filling that Pipeline Gary mentioned. I've opted for a pretty cheap route. I've been buying my water in 3 gallon jugs used for those water coolers. They fit a #10 stopper pretty good. So I use the water and then get to use the jug. Yes, I've experienced all those problems mentioned with them flexing. Worse than just air, the first time I picked one up it sucked most of the water out of my air lock into the wine. I'm a little worried about contamination on that batch. With a couple of online orders for chemicals and supplies I think I'm set now for a little while. I opted for the 3 gallon because since I'm new to the hobby I'm kind of in experiment mode. I've only got a couple of batches going now, got a pretty good delay from Hurricane Katrina. But I just kicked off an apple the other day and look forward to start filling that pipe some more.

Hap