Bill W
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I'm just about to start a cheapo 21 litre red wine kit, mainly to have something, other than beer, drinkable by Christmas. I'm still in the process of collecting empties for my wine bottle collection, so I'd be hard-pressed to have enough, even if I brew short, which I'm planning to do, to improve body and flavour. Besides which, as this is just a stop-gap wine, I'm not over-enthusiastic about the faff of bottling it for a large portion of it to be drunk over Crimbo.
Therefore, I was thinking that bag-in-box might be the way to go. It's probably not something I'd use for more expensive kits or for fruit wines I'd put a lot of care into, but for bulk plonk they seem kind of appropriate. I thought maybe get a pack of 5x 5 litre bags and brew a couple of litres short to bag it in 4 bags. Never having used such technology for home brew, I wondered what experience others had with the (allegedly) re-usable bags? Did the wine keep well? Are they easy to fill, clean, re-use etc?
Therefore, I was thinking that bag-in-box might be the way to go. It's probably not something I'd use for more expensive kits or for fruit wines I'd put a lot of care into, but for bulk plonk they seem kind of appropriate. I thought maybe get a pack of 5x 5 litre bags and brew a couple of litres short to bag it in 4 bags. Never having used such technology for home brew, I wondered what experience others had with the (allegedly) re-usable bags? Did the wine keep well? Are they easy to fill, clean, re-use etc?