fauxfly
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Hi all
I've been seeing a lot of posts on where you folks are getting your bottles and your fermenters.
Let me offer some of my personal experiences... as an electrician on a college campus with several resturants and several huge halls for weddings and entertaining, there are always wine bottles being gathered up and recycled in huge bins in our commons area. I have asked a few times the head chef to save them for me so as to store my homemade wine in them. He not only agreed, but was also very interested in the whole "home winemaking thing".
Needless to say i had several hundred bottles in boxes ready to go.
The other resource I've used at work is the main resturant, again talked to the guys who clean up and sort the different recyleables. I've got several food grade primarys in different gallon sizes. These are the square shaped plastic white buckets, they are the heavy walled ones for either salad dressings or frostings. Lots of 2 and 3 gallon glassware also.
I've used these for the last few years with no problems what so ever.
It did cost me the occasional bottle of homemade something for the head chefs.
Everyones happy.
Just my thoughts on where to get some free winemaking supplies.
Steve
I've been seeing a lot of posts on where you folks are getting your bottles and your fermenters.
Let me offer some of my personal experiences... as an electrician on a college campus with several resturants and several huge halls for weddings and entertaining, there are always wine bottles being gathered up and recycled in huge bins in our commons area. I have asked a few times the head chef to save them for me so as to store my homemade wine in them. He not only agreed, but was also very interested in the whole "home winemaking thing".
Needless to say i had several hundred bottles in boxes ready to go.
The other resource I've used at work is the main resturant, again talked to the guys who clean up and sort the different recyleables. I've got several food grade primarys in different gallon sizes. These are the square shaped plastic white buckets, they are the heavy walled ones for either salad dressings or frostings. Lots of 2 and 3 gallon glassware also.
I've used these for the last few years with no problems what so ever.
It did cost me the occasional bottle of homemade something for the head chefs.
Everyones happy.
Just my thoughts on where to get some free winemaking supplies.
Steve