kyle5434
Trying to fuse frugal/pragmatic with good results
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I'm sort of thinking ahead here...
Right now, as a 54-year-old of average strength, I can generally manage lifting/moving a 6-gallon glass carboy of wine across a room or from room to room. But as the effects of age inevitably make their presence known, I'm thinking I should have a plan for dealing with that reality.
So it seems like the most straightforward solution would be to split a 6-gallon kit into two 3-gallon batches. Given that most kits now start with warm water + bentonite, then adding the juice and topping off to 6-gallons, it seems like the easiest solution might be to add a spigot to a 7.9 gallon bucket, mix up the bentonite + juice + water, then transfer to 2 different primary fermentation vessels (stirring during the xfer in an effort to make sure the bentonite gets distributed to both vessels). It seems to me that in addition to being easier to move around, this would also enable more experimentation - using different yeast, oaking, etc. in each 3-gallon batch. (Now if only the Fermonster folks would release their promised 3-gallon version...)
Does anyone see any weaknesses in such a plan?
Right now, as a 54-year-old of average strength, I can generally manage lifting/moving a 6-gallon glass carboy of wine across a room or from room to room. But as the effects of age inevitably make their presence known, I'm thinking I should have a plan for dealing with that reality.
So it seems like the most straightforward solution would be to split a 6-gallon kit into two 3-gallon batches. Given that most kits now start with warm water + bentonite, then adding the juice and topping off to 6-gallons, it seems like the easiest solution might be to add a spigot to a 7.9 gallon bucket, mix up the bentonite + juice + water, then transfer to 2 different primary fermentation vessels (stirring during the xfer in an effort to make sure the bentonite gets distributed to both vessels). It seems to me that in addition to being easier to move around, this would also enable more experimentation - using different yeast, oaking, etc. in each 3-gallon batch. (Now if only the Fermonster folks would release their promised 3-gallon version...)
Does anyone see any weaknesses in such a plan?