storage

Been looking around at some fancy (and very cheap) bottles on alibaba recently, saw this barrel bottle (see image) and had a question... I can't imagine this would be viable for long term storage as it is, but if I were to seal it with wax would that change things? One other question, has...

Maybe this has been asked before but I haven’t found a thread on it yet. About 12 days ago I bottled my Continental Saison (my second ever home-brew) and stored them in my cupboard at about room temp or just below. Today I moved them into the conservatory to keep cooler for about 3 weeks as per...

Hi, I can't seem to find advice on this anywhere so I put a have a couple of queries for the group: 1. When storing hops, would you put unopened hops in the freezer? 2. If you open vac packed hops, will they deteriorate if still kept in a freezer? 3. I recently purchased some hops off ebay and...

Hi all, I’m a total wine brewing novice and I have my first ever 30 bottle wine kit to bottle up tomorrow, I also scored lucky with an Amazon glitch and got 36 bottles of red for £20, AND I still have another 30 bottle red wine kit to make before it goes out of date in June. I never thought...