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Comments (2)Hello There, jaybird, You have found a wonderful forum here, with many wise people. I think I would agree that you should do some more looking before committing to those glasses on Oliver...... What is your particular decorating style...........we need a bit more information if that is okay? *** Maddya...See MoreWine 'closet' --anyone build one?
Comments (7)I've built two wine cellars. One at 800 or so bottles and one at over 3000 bottles. Insulation is the first step. Part of that insulation issue is the VAPOR BARRIER. Remember your cellar will be COOLER than the other rooms in the house (including those overhead), that adjoin it. The vapor barrier goes on the warm side. If you're insulating from the inside of the cellar it means you'll have to wrap plastic around the studs/joists following the surface of the outside wall, then insulate. In my small "closet" one, I just used fiberglass batts after the plastic vapor barrier. I finished the inside with the new paperless drywall. The sad story is that most small wine room chillers are junk. I've got a Breezeaire which has failed twice already (the first unit went back, and the second after about six months the thermostat stuck on). Some talk about taking a regular window unit AC and hacking the thing to run cold enough, but that seemed a bit too experimental for me. A good thing to have is a little indoor/outdoor thermometer (get one that can measure outdoor humity). Shove the outside probe through the wall so it is measuring the cellar and leave the display somewhere you will see it from time to time when you walk by. I made an insulated door by taking a standard home center interior door (my door is only 24" wide) and cut out the interior "luaun" skin and scraped out all the cardboard spacers. This now gives you an 1" door "frame" and the outside skin. I put a 2" sheet of rigid insulation in there and then capped it with a skin of Luaun ply cut down to fit. Lots of spray adhesive and a few screws hold it together. The other cellar, I had spray foamed (since the house was getting it anyhow) and has an exterior door. Since it is a larger space, I have a small split system (like a regular house central air) that's commercially designed to run down to 55 degrees (I keep it at 57). Of course, racking can be as simple or elaborate as you are willing to pay for or build yourself. My small cellar has simple rectangular bins each holding about 12 bottles made out of plywood. The big cellar has custom redwood racking. So give us an idea of what the space is, where it is, and how big it will be....See MoreBaskets to fit wine cubbies?
Comments (20)OP here... Thank you to everyone for the suggestions. After some additional legwork, I found something that will work for me at a price I can manage. They are NOT quality baskets, but at $1.95 each, they will definitely be good enough for now. I hope that in the future, I'll be able to find/afford something of better quality, but at least now I have something that will work and can stop thinking about this decision (and move on to obsessing over something else). Work is still in progress on the kitchen, but here is a picture of a couple of the baskets in place (sorry it seems a little out of focus). My coffee maker will probably be in the corner of the kitchen under these cubbies so I will probably put coffee and tea supplies in the lower baskets and who-knows-what higher up. Thanks again!...See MoreHomegrown Grape Wine for Mary
Comments (3)Lyra, Yesterday I was given (under the counter at a cafe where I know the staff well) an espresso cup full of homemade "hooch." 90 proof I was told. It was delicious and tasted perhaps of herbs but I have no idea what was in it, only that it was made by a Greek friend named Gus. This got me thinking. As you know I have a son and friend on a boat in the South Pacific. They are on a pretty tight budget and food and libations are astonishingly expensive. They occasionally splurge for some boxed wine and they are sometimes fed by locals in exchange for capable help but often they live on beans, rice, and any fish they catch. So alcohol is an infrequent treat. I was online with the Captain last night and I suggested they try making some homemade wine. They have access to an abundant supply of fresh mangoes and other fruit. I looked up directions for making homemade mango wine and they were fussy, purist, a bit arcane and required a year of aging and ingredients available in a wine store. Well, that won't do! So I looked up "jail house wine." That produced this: "Find any kind of cheap juice. I like cranberry. The way I do it is boil a few cups of sugar mixed with water until it becomes a syrup. I add this to about two gallons of cranberry juice. It sounds too sweet, but it evens out the sour taste from the cranberry. Then I'll take a cup of the juice, warm it up slightly in the mircowave, throw in a packet of yeast and let it sit until it gets a nice head on it. Then I throw that into the rest of the juice, mix it up real good and let set for about a month in a tight container with a small airhole so gas can vent. When the yeast activates, it eats the sugar as food, and the byproduct is alcohol. Its far from a fine wine, but its pretty simple. Its a loose recipe, so it may take some tinkering to get it the way you like it. And remember, the more yeast, the more alcohol. If you can get ahold of some bread yeast over there, that'll do the job, but leaves a slight "bready" flavor if you use too much. Juice+sugar+yeast+time=hooch" Crude but probably effective. There must be some middle ground. I doubt they can find wine yeast or other wine store specific ingredients but can surely find bread yeast and sugar and juice and other things in a grocery store on Bora Bora. Got any recipes or guidance? What do you suggest to Here is a link that might be useful: Will this be useful to send to them?...See Morejust_terrilynn
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