If you are short of wine bottles, and you do not have any restaurants around
that you can ask to save bottles to get free ones, you can use gallon jugs
with solid rubber bungs very nicely. You can age in these for a couple of
years with not problem. If you have a few wine bottles, and you do not
drink a gallon at a time, you can bottle one gallon at a time.

Ray

desertphile@hot mail. com (Desertphile, American Patriot) wrote in message
...
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:18:46 GMT, "Tom S"
wrote:

desertphile@hot mail. com (Desertphile, American Patriot) wrote in
message
...

Rather than bottles with corks, would Mason jars work for the
finished product?

Yeah, they'll _work_ - but the metal lid is susceptible to
corrosion from the acid in wine, and that'll affect the flavor.
Also, it's difficult to get the headspace small enough.

I did not think of those things. Humm. I have some bottles that
have ceramic stoppers, with a Mason jar-like wire assembly that
seats the stopper hard up against the bottle's mouth with a rubber
gasket. I suppose I could save the Mason jars for moonshine, and
use the bottles for wine.

Why bother? Bottles aren't that expensive, and they're reusable.

I asked because I have Mason jars and do not have bottles. :-) I
live on a remote cattle ranch, going for supplies one day a month.

Yah know, if I could figure out how to turn horse shit into wine,
I'd be a billionaire.

Tom S

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