Hey Culligan man!

[Crawlspacevintner]

I was at a local grocery store and was looking at the 5 gallon jugs of water. I believe it was $13 for the bottle and the water. Are these blue 5 gallon jugs ok for making wine?

 

[Crawlspacevintner]

If you make a white in one, can you put it on one of those water coolers and have a nice chilled wine on tap? Would be a big improvement over the plain water we have at the office.

 

[cpfan]

If you make a white in one, can you put it on one of those water coolers and have a nice chilled wine on tap? Would be a big improvement over the plain water we have at the office.

Depending how quickly you drink the 5 US gallons, you might end up drinking oxidized wine.

Steve

 

[cpfan]

crawlspacevintner..

Not only is this a common question, but your title (or a version of it) has been used before (although maybe not here). Regardless, here are a couple of threads that you can review for previous discussion.....

http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16635
http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16411
http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16218

Bottom line, the answer is maybe yes, maybe no. Personally I won't use them, but I will use the plastic Better Bottle type carboys.

Steve

 

[marquis]

Wine are much better preserved on bottles.

If you want to use jars, maybe the taste would be different.

 

[FTC Wines]

Crawlspacevinter, I have 10 glass carboys, 2 Better bottles & 3 blue tinted water bottles. I use the water bottles for SP and other fast drinkers when my "good" carboys are full. Iv'e never seen a difference, but the wine not in there very long! Roy

 

[Crawlspacevintner]

Thanks for the input. After posting this i did do a search and I apologize for asking the same question again. I am new to this and before I go out and put hundreds of dollars into my equipment I want to make sure I love this hobby and that I can make good wine. I was thinking of using those bottles for skeeter pee and for secondary fermentation. I wouldn't want to use those for long term aging.

The second comment I made was just in good humor. Basically saying it would be nice to drink at work!

Kevin