It's all in the name of mad hobo science.

[Jackalope]

I keep all my jugs in a back room with my radio room/office. I've got 28 gallons of wine aging right now, and plan to start another 5 gallon batch as soon as I get one of my current 5 gallon batches bottled.

I really need to start building my wine rack for our cellar, because 28 gallons of wine = 140 750 ml bottles of wine.

It's a bit more problematic for me, kegs are easy, they all go into cold storage in a chest freezer converted to run at 38-40F. During fermentation, it goes wherever it will fit. There's 5 gallons fermenting on top of my dresser in the bedroom right now, another 5 on my kitchen counter. The next batch has to go in the closet. LOL

[Doubting Thomas]

My wife likes wine so this is one hobby she encourages.

[KichigaiNeko]

My wife likes wine so this is one hobby she encourages.

Hmmmm

Zen could really use a NEW hobby!

*rushes off to direct Zen to this thread*

[Jackalope]

It's a great way for wine swillers lovers to get plastered enjoy their favorite hooch beverage and save some serious dough.

I've developed a serious taste for mead (honey wine), at $14+ dollars for the cheap swill affordable labels, I can scarcely afford to guzzle it like it was Kool-aid drink it as often as I'd like. When it costs less than $2 per bottle to make myself, I can afford to drink it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner enjoy a glass or two whenever I like.

[KichigaiNeko]

SEE Bebe!! ^^^ What Cthulhu said!! And you know, I just LOVE Cider and Mead!!

[Jackalope]

Surprisingly, after only two days (!!!) of frantic fermentation, and one in the refer for clearing, this stuff is actually drinkable. The hydrometer indicates 5.9% alcohol by volume, quite a bit higher than I wanted.

I think I'm going to have to try a bit harder to make something nasty - maybe ferment it in an old boot or something.

[Doubting Thomas]

The other night in an episode of "Restaurant Impossible," they were making wine racks for this restaurant out of 4" PVC pipe. Cut the pipe in lengths of the bottle, then stack on top of each other. I think this might be the way I go for my wine rack. I'm not really that worried about aesthetics since it will be down in our cellar and I basically really just want something to hold a bunch of wine bottles on their sides like they should be for long term storage. I'm thinking of building a wooden frame to hold all the cut pieces of pipe in, then find some good way to secure the pipes, like industrial strength glue or epoxy. Or even PVC glue.

[Jackalope]

The other night in an episode of "Restaurant Impossible," they were making wine racks for this restaurant out of 4" PVC pipe. Cut the pipe in lengths of the bottle, then stack on top of each other. I think this might be the way I go for my wine rack. I'm not really that worried about aesthetics since it will be down in our cellar and I basically really just want something to hold a bunch of wine bottles on their sides like they should be for long term storage. I'm thinking of building a wooden frame to hold all the cut pieces of pipe in, then find some good way to secure the pipes, like industrial strength glue or epoxy. Or even PVC glue.

I saw that episode - I thought that was a very creative way to build wine racks, especially if you either are going for a modern look, or simply don't care about aesthetics.

As far as securing the sections of pipe, PVC glue should work fine for pipe-pipe joints. You might need to experiment a bit to figure out the best technique. I would imagine that a 6x6 or 8x8 matrix of PVC pipe sections would be very rigid.

For pipe-wood joints, you'll want to use something like gorilla glue or epoxy. Screws would work as well.

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Some people prefer bottling. I prefer to put my stuff in cans.