"Dan Emerson" > wrote in message
m...
> I guess I posted on this thread, didn't mean to.
>
> I'm pretty sure it wasn't fermenting any more. It might have warmed
> up a few degrees. There must have been a hidden flaw. I've had
> demijohns with solid bungs outside to cold stabilize them without
> problem.
>
> Demijohns actually have pretty thin glass compared to bottles. One of
> my demijohns is green glass. When I filled with with fermenting
> Sauvignon Blanc wine, there was a thin spot on the glass that became
> readily apparent with the brown wine in it. It is scary actually now
> that I broke one.

54 litres is way to big for me to trust any glass bottle; my 23 is about
perfect IMO. If you can't easily move it around by hand, I'd just forget
about it..... That thing's got to weigh 70kg total when filled with must or
wine.