One for the wine makers

[brimic]

I'm also a big fan of the polymer Better Bottles, which weigh less and are more forgiving than their 3, 5, and 6 gallon glass carboy counterparts.

Those 6gal glass bottles are freaking heavy when full!
A 'problem' I found with my 1 glass jug is that it holds about ~1L more than the Better bottles of the same size.

I'm always eyeballing the racks of 5gal water cooler jugs at Home depot- I've never heard of a definitive reason why these would be bad for fermentation/aging, but have heard a lot of speculation about permeability or other voodoo reasons not to use them.
Anyone have any hard evidence for or against these?

[Gewehr98]

Brimic, I've just recently started buying the 5 gallon water cubes sold for refill at WalMart.  There's a deposit on them, but they're still a ton cheaper than either Better Bottles or glass carboys.

I've got a small stack of them ready for this year's fruit season.

[Balog]

$25 a bottle even quicker. :)

That's some spendy beer. 

That's gorram impressive.

Only 200 gallons per year, right? Otherwise, BATFE might be unhappy.

Isn't the 200/year based on a couple? I thought that the individual limit was 100/year?

[Gewehr98]

200 gallons per family.

100 per individual.

[charby]

That's some spendy beer. 

I was thinking wine.

[brimic]

Isn't the 200/year based on a couple? I thought that the individual limit was 100/year?

My moonshiner ancestors ignored and killed over much bigger laws...