| Re: Carboy vs. Plastic buckets
"Liz Boyd" <liz [email]Boyd@cal.net[/email]> wrote in message
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> > > I doubt plastic carboys will be a problem for short term secondary (2[/color][/color][/color]
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> I would respectfully disagree. Two or three months is way too long to
> secondary in cheap plastic water bottles. This is begging for problems,
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> Michael
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Liz Boyd ... or Michael. Keep in mind who you are replying to. You replied
to me, but I did not write the above text. You snipped out the author
(which makes it look like I said it). Ron N <a1nipper@adelphia.net> stated
what you actually replied to.
Tom Veldhouse |