B-Day puchase

[chiguire]

I have some b-day money and I am thinking of a couple of purchases. I feel fairly comfortable with the brewing equipment that I have so far - but I have been contemplating a couple of purchases

1) Portuguese floor corker
I have bottled all of my brews so far in crown cap bottles and I am thinking about classing it up a bit

2) Nitrogen tank and regulator. I could use something better than my small Co2 chargers to top off headspace....

What think ye?

 

[Medsen Fey]

Floor corker.
The only things I'd keep ahead of my floor corker are my hydrometer, my pH meter and my mouth.

 

[wildoates]

I already have a very nice floor corker, so I vote t'other choice.

 

[wayneb]

Corker. N2 is a nice to have but not necessary. If you ever want to present your mead in wine bottles, the corker is essential.

 

[mmclean]

I'd go with the floor corker.

 

[chams]

Corker me corker. ;D

 

[chiguire]

Thanks all, for the input.

A Portuguese floor corker will be the purchase.

After catching the title error, "puchase", I am embarrassed. Would that be pronounced poochase or puhchase....?

 

[Tannin Boy]

The floor corker would and was my first priority.
Yet the o2 system sure makes sparging so much easier...
Buy both a spoil the hell out of yourself!!

TB

 

[Chevette Girl]

I'd go for the floor corker too...

and for pronunciation of your typo, I'd say "puhchase"...

 

[chiguire]

Portuguese floor corker purchased

 

[TheAlchemist]

Portuguese floor corker purchased

Good on ya, Mate.

 

[Golddiggie]

I have one of those too... It's really sweet... The only 'issue' I have with it is corking Belgian bottles, since you leave a certain amount of cork exposed. I've pretty much got it dialed in for that though. I just dread the day that I use it to bottle up mead and then have to set the depth all over again.

 

[wildoates]

Changing the depth on mine is easy, all we do is spin the nut. But mine's Italian, not portuguese. I'm sure that makes soooo much of a difference.

Congrats on your purchase! If you're like me when I got mine a couple of years ago, you'll go on a corking frenzy, wanting to bottle everything you have, even if it's not ready.


When mine came it billed itself as the Cadillac of corkers, but I thought that if it's Italian, shouldn't it be the Ferrari of corkers?

 

[chiguire]

Congrats on your purchase! If you're like me when I got mine a couple of years ago, you'll go on a corking frenzy, wanting to bottle everything you have, even if it's not ready.

Ha! No - I only have a five gallon batch of mead going right now that will not be ready to bottle for another month or so.

Unfortunately I am going to be displaced this summer for a job in Houston, so probably no brewing for me until the fall

 

[JayH]

Well if you don't know anybody in Tuscan who is willing to make sure your mead doesn't feel forgotten, I have a couple of friends that I'm sure would be glad to drop by once or twice a week to just to make sure it hasn't gone bad.

Any way my condolences on being stuck in Houston for the summer.

 

[chiguire]

I have a couple of friends that I'm sure would be glad to drop by once or twice a week to just to make sure it hasn't gone bad.

;D I think they'll be alright... It will make it easier for me to leave them alone and let them age though.