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> Hello,
> My brother has obtained a old wine press and would like to refinsh the
> metal base. His question is what type of paint should be used due the
> acidity
> of the grape juice. Also my father has an old bottle of Dandelion wine he
> made
> from a recipe he does not remeber over forty years ago, what is the shelf
> life
> of dandelion wine? I have tasted a little and it tastes somthing like a
> port wine.
> Thanks in advance for your help!!
I only found one vendor who sold fluid resistant epoxy paint for metal
wine equipment and he was darn antsy about saying that it was sold asw
food grade...to say nothing of wine grade. Incidentally the white
***maid food grade containers are not recommended for wine according
to a ***maid representative. I do not think you will get
manufacturer to recommend their regular food grade plastic containers
for wine. Same for a paint you could buy.
After going through all this I used plain brown garbage cans for
primaries with no ill effect that I know of. I might have used epoxy
paint on my press and crusher if it hadn't been too hard to get and had
been guaranteed. I used regular Rustoleum to touch up my crusher. One
coat primer and one coat enamel finish. I would do the same on my
press. I dont think the contents of either the crusher or the press are
in contact with the metal surfaces long enough to worry about anyway.
While on that subject the***on the press is not painted which is
supposed to be a no-no for wine processing since iron supposedly
produces a cloudy compound difficult to get rid of. Never had that
problem with my press.
In my opinion any paint which comes on a crusher or press is nothing
special except it might be epoxy. By the way, also, the big guys dont
have to worry about this since their stuff is all stainless steel...this
might explain why paint manufacturers could care less about food grade
or, more specifically, wine grade paint.
TS