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.

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

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.

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.

"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.
>
>

"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.
>
>

>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

I had the same problem, when I started making wine, and solved it the
same way. Trader Joe's sold apple juice for $4/gallon in glass jugs,
so I made a lot of apple wine. As the apple wine found it's way into
bottles, I started fermenting other things like raspberries,
blueberries, plums, grapes, welch's concentrates, mead, and even sake.

Erroll

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

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.

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.

>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

I had the same problem, when I started making wine, and solved it the
same way. Trader Joe's sold apple juice for $4/gallon in glass jugs,
so I made a lot of apple wine. As the apple wine found it's way into
bottles, I started fermenting other things like raspberries,
blueberries, plums, grapes, welch's concentrates, mead, and even sake.

Erroll