A tip on getting used bottles.
We have a community "Festival of the Vine" as an annual event.
A visit late in the day and a few friendly words to the people at the tasting tables gets us all the empties we can haul away.We've even had them load cases of them onto our truck.
I was given a pillan press which I believe is a no.25. It is complete except for the wooden blocks which go between the ratchet mechanism and the disk which pushes down the grapes.
I've tried using 2 X 2 and 2 X 4 pieces of different sizes with no luck.
If anyone has one of these and can...
A recent back injury ( and the surgery that is soon to happen ) mean that I can't lift five gallon carboys full of wine when it comes time (two weeks ago) to rack them. I have five carboys full of this seasons production and I'm starting to panic.
I have always just lifted them up on to the...