Juggernaut
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The bottom of my primary bucket is roughed up from stirring in sugar with a paddle. Should I replace the bucket because I can no longer trust it to be sanitary?
I keep about a half inch of k-meta in the bottom of my bucket with the lid locked down when not in use. Good luck growing any bacteria in there!
Use it. No worries. Sanitize it and use it.
I seriously think many of these worries and concerns are either: a.) Myths created by someone who was looking for a reason their wine didn't turn out and landed on this, or b.) Created fears made by the industry to sell more equipment.
If my grandpa got by with a set of half wooden barrels and used his feet in rubber boots to stomp grapes, and his wine tasted like I remember it, then a few scratches in plastic won't hurt ya.
Just think what many wineries do to make vast quantities of wine. I daresay most home winemakers are far more picky about sanitation. Yet the commercial wineries seem to do fine.
How do you get back that "Rubbery Boot Taste" you've been missing from Grandpa's wine?
There wasn't one. The boots were kept for just that purpose and were kept washed. My larger point is what commercial wineries do. They'd never get any wine made if they ran around spritzing and worrying like many of us do, let alone hundreds of gallons per batch.
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