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Article #263: Home WineMaking Equipment Kits To Get You Making Great Wine.

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Making wine at home can be a more garbage can|like a plastic garbage can)
enjoyable task than you think, especially with a non-airtight lid and a mark at the
with the home winemaking equipment kits 23-liter point
available today. Many times you could · · A 23-liter glass or food-grade
already have some of the equipment plastic carboy
necessary. There are many beer and wine · · An airlock and bung (a rubber
making stores popping up in most areas, stopper with a hole in it) for the carboy
so a quick searchin the yellow pages will · · A hydrometer to check the specific
find you the winemaking equipment store gravity referred to as 'sp. gr.' of the
nearest you. You can purchase a wine
winemaking kit to go with your wine · · A long, narrow tube or jar to hold
equipment kit from these stores and then the wine while you're checking its
all you will need are the bottles and the specific gravity (generally the tube the
time it takes to be ready. Sounds good! hydrometer comes in works fine)
To find out what you will need to make · · A dairy thermometer
your wine at home, if you take a look on · · A long piece (at least 1.5m or five
the Internet, you should be able to see feet) of food-grade plastic tubing
what is contained in a home wine making · · A long spoon that can fit into the
equipment kit. After you get your list of neck of the carboy and reach to the
what is in the wine making equipment kit, bottom
check through your cupboards, you may · · A wine thief to remove the
have some of the items on the list developing wine from the carboy without
already. Remember, anything plastic you having to tip it
use must be food safe quality, that's You will also need apart from the grape
very important. Often times it is better juice or whatever you have chosen to make
to purchase the full wine making you wine with the following:
equipment kit so that whatever you need · · Good quality water, this normally
to use to make your wine at home, will be means filtered water, not the chlorinated
used for your wine making and that alone. water from many town water supplies.
Wherever you purchase your wine making · · Wine Yeast, this is best tailored
equipment, ask if there is a recipe book for the type of wine you want to produce,
that comes with the kit, the store owner use bread yeast only if you can't get the
for good will, may just give you one to wine yeast. The results with bread yeast
get you started, never hurts to enquire, are generally not as good.
but if not then find out if they can · · A wine 'settler', you can use
recommend a good one to you. You could sterilized bentonite or isinglass and
end up with many wine recipe books over a they should be readily available from the
period of time, they are very much like winemaking stores.
cookbooks, there is always a better · · Potassium sorbate, to stop
recipe in the book on the shelf, there is fermentation, you can get this also at
that old saying about green grass. When the winemaking supply store.
you are starting out with your · · Bottles and corks
winemaking, then these wine making recipe · · Campden tablets, these are used to
books will never go to waste. You will help kill all the naturally occurring
get into your way of making your own wild yeasts and undesirable bacteria in
wine. must, but they can also be used to make a
Here is a list of home wine making sanitizing solution.
equipment you will need. Winemaking can be such a satisifying
· · A 30-liter or larger food-grade experience, get your winemaking equipment
plastic container (similar in shape to a together and get going.






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