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Smaller jugs purchase. Where?

After spending quite a bit time looking on the internet and faq's, I have what probably is a easily answered question for this group.

Because of the "topping off" advice for secondary fermentation and aging, where can one purchase jugs of various small sizes such as 4 liter, Imperial gallon, 5 liter, 6 liter, ... up through 2.5 US gallon? Even using marbles, it would be nice to get close to the size needed.

Any help or ideas would be super!!

Thanks,

Tom Holmdahl snipped-for-privacy@televar.com

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holmdahl
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Standard jugs in homebrew shops in this country are 1/2 gallon, 1 gallon,

2.8 gallon, 3 gallon, 5 gallon, ... which doesn't help you much.

However, wine and other beverages are sold in a variety of intermediate sizes. Some grape juice is still sold in 1.5 litre jugs. Wine is sold in 1.5 litre wine bottles, and 3-litre and 4-litre "jugs". I haven't seen any other sizes, but they are probably out there.

Presque Isle

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sells a few of these sizes, but you could also purchase the wine, and get the bottle as a bonus. Carlo Rossi comes in very nice 4-litre jugs, and costs about $5 (supposedly it tastes pretty good too).

Another good bet is to ask friends and relatives and restaurants to save their empties for you.

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Negodki

As the previous poster said there are the regular sizes you can buy. But for those odd sizes, I went to the liquor store to check out what sizes they had, and over time I would buy a bottle or jug (imbibe and save). Other than that talk to relatives and friends to see if they might save you a particular size. Another option, you could check a favorite restaurant for some bottles/jugs. Or check out your local recycling center to see if they have some sizes you'd like. Good-luck. Darlene

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Dar V

Ditto to Negodki's post - Rossi's jugs are 4 liters. We drink their Sangria in the summer months.

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Patrick McDonald

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Sabia Vanderzeeuw

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Negodki

I also got my smaller jugs at our recycle center, and it was FREE!! just took some time to look thru the bins and find what size,color I wanted. plus I also got about 20 wine bottles that I needed too, just wash and then they are ready to use again and it was all at no cost to me.

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rick Cole

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