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GENERAL CHEESE MAKING BOARDS (Specific Cheese Making in Boards above) => EQUIPMENT - Aging Cheese, Caves => Topic started by: Tropit on November 07, 2009, 03:18:25 PM
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I would love to put my son and DH to work and have them build us a real cheese & wine cave into a hillside. Has anyone ever tried this? What is required? Plans? Tips?
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No clue but a couple of people have thought or done it that you could send a PM to:
1) Goatherdess (http://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,1622.0.html)
2) There was someone with a physical rick cave but I couldn't find the post, sorry.
3) Here's another idea from Brian (http://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,492.0.html).
Also in this board (http://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/board,211.0.html) is some info.
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My wife keeps telling me I should build a Hobbit cave into our hillside. Ohhhh honey. Don't tempt me. ::)
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Didn't I read of a commercial operation that is digging a cave out of solid rock?
It was on the site recently. Apparently that plan replaced a plan to use a retired shipping container underground.
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I have seen wine cellars done with shipping containers. Houses too. I think there's probably a book out there, somewhere, that offers a 1000 +1 uses for shipping containers. I s'pose it's not a bad idea...really.
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I have built and consulted on a number of caves and underground aging areas. For it to be done right requires significant time and effort. I would say 50% of the caves I have seen as miserable failures beyond redemption. They have wild temperature fluculations and incorrect airflow/ventilation. Another 45% have rectifiable major flaws. The last 5% were built on multi-million dollar budgets, incorporate sophisticated temperature control systems and work beautifully.
It is possible to build a cave in a hill side and have it work beautifully but, unfortunately, most small producers who are doing this lack the expertise or funds to hire epxertise to make it work.