just got my winemaking kit and am wondering where I am going to set
up. I'd like to hear where everybody keeps their stuff.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:12:59 -0700, Tater wrote:

just got my winemaking kit and am wondering where I am going to set
up. I'd like to hear where everybody keeps their stuff.

The basement has a bar. Kit is mixed on the floor, the fermentor lifted
gradually up to it via a chair and the freezer. Nobody seems to *really*
mind too much ...

When not in used it's all stored away in the attic.

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"Tater" wrote in message
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just got my winemaking kit and am wondering where I am going to set
up. I'd like to hear where everybody keeps their stuff.

I live in Maine so ambient temps are a problem.
I store my idle equipment in the basement, but when I'm
fermenting I ferment in the basement in the summer and in the
upstairs loft (heat rises) in the winter.
Although my wife is an enthusiastic consumer of the product
she doesn't participate too much in the making so she
doesn't comment too much on having fermenters sitting
around the house.

Ah, basements, I miss them so. I moved from the north to the south,
where basements are rare - something to do with red clay and humidity I
guess.
So I store my 3 primaries, 3-6 gallon, 3-3 gallon, and 9-1 gallon
secondaries in the attic.
When I start a batch, we have a formal dining room that is never used,
so I have a corner of that with three to 12 containers at most in
operation.
My wife seldom drinks, but loves helping make the wine and sharing with
our friends, so she doesn't mind me using the space - or the yeast/wine
smell when you walk into the 1st floor. (only during primary times) I
have found putting down towels (old ones from the garage)under the
primaries and secondaries works. I use those large flower pot plastic
bottoms (cheap at hardware stores) to put under the secondaries until I
know it is settled down. I lay a towel over the primaries and
secondaries to shade from sun, though it's not in direct sunlight.

When we downsize the house, I hope to build a house with a basement, I
mean, we have the technology now to have swimming pools that don't leak
and dehumidifiers - surely I can build a basement here in NC. In fact,
I'll probably seek a double door into the basement, and a small wine
celler at the far end.

This hobby is fun. I have 400+ bottles filled all over our house.
Closets, behind couches, where ever a case or wine rack can be placed. :*)

DAve



Tater wrote:
just got my winemaking kit and am wondering where I am going to set
up. I'd like to hear where everybody keeps their stuff.

On Mar 13, 7:12 pm, "Tater" wrote:
just got my winemaking kit and am wondering where I am going to set
up. I'd like to hear where everybody keeps their stuff.

I keep my primary in our walk-in closet off our bedroom. And a lot of
secondaries. My wife doesnt like the smell but tolerates it for the
couple of days per fortnight/month when it smells.

Tater wrote:
just got my winemaking kit and am wondering where I am going to set
up. I'd like to hear where everybody keeps their stuff.

I am pretty lucky, I think: My basement has two areas, a cooler area, of
which used to be a garage, and the other part which has our wood
furnace/wood storage and my laundry room. In my laundry room, I have
sink a table that holds either a carboy and a primary or, as is the case
now, two carboys. I have a pegboard where I hang my tubes, hoses,
brushes,and spoons and I have shelves for other incidentals. My
laundry keeps a pretty constant temperature 65 - 70F, most of the time.

If the temperature really dips down here in New Brunswick, I put
whatever I have fermenting on a little cart and move it closer to the
furnace.

The other part of my basement is much cooler, and about seldom climbed
higher than 60F even on the hottest days last summer. My new "Hobby" is
getting off the ground (have a Gwertztramener and a blackberry cabernet
on the go for summer sipping) I have plans on building an insulated
cupboard along one of the (cooler) outside walls to make sort of a "wine
cellar". The temperature in that cupboard should be no greater than the
high 50's.


Abby (enthusiastic newbie)
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Tater, I built an addition and it has a winemaking room as the
basement. It's 8 x 18 and keeps everything except finished wine which
goes to a cold cellar. I make from 50 to 100 gallons a year plus beer
in there. (I'm Italian, in this area it's not uncommon to have a
second kitchen in the basement, that's really what this is.)

I'm not saying you should do that...

Joe

Basements aren't common here in south Louisiana, but I'm fortunate enough to
have a seperate building (24' x 32') in my backyard, complete with HVAC. I
use about 1/3 of the space for winemaking; the rest is used for storage.

Bart




"Tater" wrote in message
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just got my winemaking kit and am wondering where I am going to set
up. I'd like to hear where everybody keeps their stuff.

Bart,

"I feel your pain". I too am from south Louisiana. I'm making my plans now
to modify a small building in my back yard for the sole purpose of housing
my homemade wine making operation. My wine making is effectivly on hold for
the moment because while my wife loves to drink my wine, she dispises seeing
it ferment on the counter.

I have a lot to do to the building. Insulations, AC, Expanded size... But I
think it'll be worth it.

What city are you in?

Brad

"Bart" wrote in message
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Basements aren't common here in south Louisiana, but I'm fortunate enough
to have a seperate building (24' x 32') in my backyard, complete with
HVAC. I use about 1/3 of the space for winemaking; the rest is used for
storage.

Bart




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just got my winemaking kit and am wondering where I am going to set
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