"Ray Calvert" > wrote in message
m...
> Yep, I know what you mean. I remember 25+ years ago when I started with
3
> one gallon jugs. Now I start roughly 80 to 90 gallons a year and age much
> of it for 2 to 3 years before bottling. You can imagine how many carboys
I
> have stacked around. You can imagine how many racks of bottles I have.
> And, really, I do not drink that much, really. At least I don't think I
do.

Your memory is like mine! LOL!!! I don't remember drinking that much
wine but these empties keep popping up....
>
> Ray
>
> "Randall MacInnes" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Greetings all, newbie winemaker in Atlanta here. This may not be news
to
> > you folks, but my local brew store can't find a supply of gallon jugs at
> > reasonable costs, so he won't stock them. But while rooting around the
> > clear glass bins for recycling behind the local Whole Foods grocery, I
> > found a gallon juice jug for Organic All Natural Apple juice.
Pastuerized,
> > no preserves. Went in and found same item on shelf, $6.99.
> >
> > If you like apple cider, that's 5 gallon jugs and five gallons of cider
> > for $40.00 including table sugar. I may be filling my third carboy, the
> > 6.5 gallon one, within two months. I figure right now I am practising
the
> > practical arts of winemaking before the summer is upon me and I am up to
> > my ears in fruit, so I have 3 gallons of wine from frozen concord grape
> > concentrate(pitched 03-06-05) and 5 gallons of Frozen Apple Juice
> > Concentrate (03-21-05).
> >
> > Jeeze this is addictive, no wonder my tee totaling granny limited
herself
> > to 4 20gallon batches of wine per year.
>
>