Bushwalk Australia

I'm running out of spare wine cask bladders (4 or 5 L) that I use for water storage while walking. My usual sources of empty bladders have either given up drinking casks and graduated to bottles, or died.
Any suggestions on where I can find some empty bladders? As a last resort, I might have to buy a few casks of red ned; but I'm one of those who've switched to bottles

jimbo42

Where are you located?

You've switched to bottles for good reason.
Bladders have been sold for some time by some camping shops, like Scout/Snogums but people reasonably baulked at paying ~$5 (back then), for something you could get for free, when cask wine was still marginally quaffable. Perhaps Dans has helped raise the bar?
So the camping stores may still have them.
Yalumba 2l "premiums" use a tap that's useless for refilling. Then again, when you've been out for some days, a cask of bombo is fruit of the gods.

Sea to Summit 'Pack taps' are excellent.

May be overpriced end of options, but double bagged, durable skin, better (silicon) tap. still light and a range of sizes. They are just jazzed up wine bladders frankly

nq111 wrote:Sea to Summit 'Pack taps' are excellent.

May be overpriced end of options, but double bagged, durable skin, better (silicon) tap. still light and a range of sizes. They are just jazzed up wine bladders frankly

I used a 4 litre one on a recent trip, and found them to be great. The tap is extremely stiff though, found it impossible to remove mine for refilling by hand without assistance from a pocket knife, but otherwise, a great addition to my pack.

ryantmalone wrote:The tap is extremely stiff though, found it impossible to remove mine for refilling by hand without assistance from a pocket knife, but otherwise, a great addition to my pack.

Let some air in first. Then much easier to remove.

Strider-- I'm in Melbourne eastern suburbs

jimbo42

jimbo42 wrote:Strider-- I'm in Melbourne eastern suburbs

jimbo42

Can't help you then. Try your local Macca's? All the soft drinks come in 10L bladders.

I'm a great fan of wine bladders. All of my 4l ones were from wine used around the house. I have since moved onto 10lbladders, as I also use them as pillows, or as floatation in a home made PFD for Packrafting. These have been sourced either from catering wine packs, for the foil ones, or places that use bulk milk for the plastic ones. Hospital cafeterias etc. plastic is lighter, less bulky, and doesn't crinkle when using it as a pillow. There is also a manufacturer of wine bladders in Dandenong somewhere - google . I did hassle them some years ago to get different valve fittings for some milk bladders, and they were v helpful, probably just wishing to get rid of me!

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Outsports in Moorabbin have bladders - a couple of sizes, from memory (new, not used ones :)