Thread: Carrying wine when outback driving

My wine usually sits in the passenger seat or occassionally in the rear when the younger vintages start to burst their bubbles .

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Can you buy 10l casks? PLease tell me where

We have had a wine cask bladder rub thru on very rough roads but only once...still once can be enough

Dan Murphy stock 10l Browns Brothers Dry Red casks - pretty reasonable quality.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Ahhh....thats why I haven't seen them. We don't have Dan Murphy local to us
I don't drink red but Numpty likes it...and likes Brown Bros

BUT...10 litres is a lot to have sloshing around if the bladder does spring a leak

... and a lot to have to drink at once if you don't want to see it go to waste.

Barokes - Premium Wine in a Can

Originally Posted by Scallops

Distinguished Colleagues,

In 8 weeks Mrs Scallops and I will embark on our around Oz trip in our new Defender. Now - I don't drink - but Mrs Scallops loves her red wine. I was thinking of buying a few 10l Browns Brothers casks - reasonable quality and enough to keep Kat going for a few weeks at least - but - I wondered if anyone has had the experience of wine bladders rubbing and rupturing - especially on long corrugated sections of road.

We are going to very remote and tough tracks (Old Gunbarrel, Kimberleys, Nathan River road, Chambers Pillar etc) and I don't want a sea of wine throughout Grover. What do you think?

There's always plenty of dead roos and other vermin along the roads of Australia. I'd suggest fill their bladders up with whatever and take it along with you. They're easily replaceable. Problem is at moment we're trying to dry the blackfellas up so there;s a shortage of grog in the dead centre at the moment.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Ahhh....thats why I haven't seen them. We don't have Dan Murphy local to us
I don't drink red but Numpty likes it...and likes Brown Bros

BUT...10 litres is a lot to have sloshing around if the bladder does spring a leak

If he's drunk ten litres at a sitting, bladder control is the least of his worries.



Cheers
Simon

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Can you buy 10l casks? PLease tell me where

We have had a wine cask bladder rub thru on very rough roads but only once...still once can be enough

Liqourland stocks them as well


mrs ho har

View store item - The Drunken Goat

Solution - bolt to storage system!!!!!

We normally only use cask for emergencies!

We just use the std wine box with cardboard in between the bottles or for spirits we have used the foam bottle wraps you get in duty free!

In the dry areas get your bottles and store them in your wrapped up swags! Protects the bottles!

North of the Jardine in cape york we burried all our booze and marked it on the GPS.