Randall MacInnes > wrote:

> 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.

I'm not surprised. I can't find 4 litre jugs in Maryland unless I
buy Carlo Rossi.

> 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.

Carlo Rossi costs me $7.99. If you want gallon containers, go online.
There has to be a LHBS near you that has some at $2.99. But if you
want to brew a Cider Mead, buy the $6.99 stuff!

> 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 20 gallon batches of wine per year.

My tee totaling granny brewed her own beer and when she couldn't lift
the stuff she started buying quarts. I use to bring a six pack every
Saturday to the nursing home in the years before she died. I even
brought plastic cups so all the elderly lushs got some.

Dick