Demijohn

[Sky]

lost the auction but no biggy, will look at other alternatives

[red]

my local homebrew shop sells these grommet things that go into a hole in the lid of a big mineral water bottle. so those must work.
if you do a search, you could probably get some mail order.

[MKG]

You can brew up in almost anything - the only necessities are that the container is waterproof and won't taint the product undesirably (don't, for instance, try it in an old iron crock - won't kill you, but the wine will taste of rust). While we're at it, an airlock isn't all that important either - all it really does is tell you that there's activity in the wine. A cotton wool plug (combined with the carbon dioxide which the yeast is pumping out) keeps any insect or bacteria at bay. Theoretically, you could store the wine like this too - as long as you never disturb that carbon dioxide layer.

[PeterNZ]

I bid on a drum on Trademe but am thinking at 25ltrs it may be a wee bit big for wine?

I shouldn't really comment since I started with 23 liter fermenters and am now at 50 liter barrels.

We made almost 200 liters of apple wine last season!

Some weeks ago I made Cape Gooseberry Wine. It was the first time and I made 30 liters. I gave my wife some to try and she turned around, went straight to the vege patch and picked another 10kg. She returned to me and handed over the buckets with the word "MORE!" So now there are 80 liters in the fermenter. But don't worry, we give away a lot for presents and have a lot of guests etc. No need yet to join the AA!

I guess what I want to say is, if you start small you will eventually come to a point where you want to make more. And then you have to upgrade. I wouldn't have a problem to make 10 liters of wine in a 23 liter fermenter. And next season if you have more fruit you can easily make more wine!

Cheers

Peter

[Sky]

I live rurally and don't have the car during the week so it's very frustrating sometimes not being able to just go buy what I need and I work weekends so can't go then either.
Really keen to start brewing too so will keep on looking on Trade me but think I'll have to send the hubby with a shopping list at the weekend if I don't have any luck.