Home WineMaking Equipment Kits To Get You Making Great Wine.

By: CarmelT Baird

Home winemaking equipment is not complicated equipment. Often times you could already have some of the equipment required. There are many beer and wine making stores popping up in most areas, so a quick searchonline will find you the winemaking equipment shop nearest you. You can buy a winemaking kit to go with your winemaking equipment kit from these stores and then all you will need are the bottles and the time it takes to be ready. Wouldn't that be nice?

To find out what you will need to make your wine at home, if you take a look online, you should be able to get a list of what is contained in a home wine making equipment kit. Take a look at your cupboards and see if you already have some of the items, depending on how much you have, compare the prices for the extra you would need to see if the wine making equipment kit would be a better option. Anything plastic must be food safe and the item should have that stamped on it. Often times it is better to purchase the full home wine making equipment kit so that whatever you need to use to make your wine at home, will be used for your wine making and that alone.

Wherever you buy your wine making equipment, find out if there is a recipe book that is included with the kit, the store keeper for good will, may just give you one to get you started, never hurts to enquire, but if not then see if they can recommend a good one to you. Beware, winemaking recipe books can become addictive, like cookbooks, some people can never get enough. When you are starting out with your home winemaking, then these wine making recipe books will not go to waste. You will get into your way of making your great wine.

Your winemaking equipment kit should include these items or something similar.

· · A 30-liter or larger food-grade plastic container (similar in shape to a garbage can|like a plastic garbage can) with a non-airtight lid and a mark at the 23-liter point
· · A 23-liter glass or food-grade plastic carboy
· · An airlock and bung (a rubber stopper with a hole in it) for the carboy
· · A hydrometer to check the specific gravity referred to as 'sp. gr.' of the wine
· · A long, narrow tube or jar to hold the wine while you're checking its specific gravity (generally the tube the hydrometer comes in works fine)
· · A dairy thermometer
· · A long piece (at least 1.5m or five feet) of food-grade plastic tubing
· · A long spoon that can fit into the neck of the carboy and reach to the bottom
· · A wine thief to remove the developing wine from the carboy without having to tip it

You will also need apart from the grape juice or whatever you have chosen to make you wine with the following:

· · Good quality water, this normally means filtered water, not the chlorinated water from many town water supplies.

· · Wine Yeast, this is best tailored for the type of wine you want to produce, use bread yeast only if you can't get the wine yeast. The results with bread yeast are generally not as good.

· · A wine 'settler', you can use sterilized bentonite or isinglass and they should be readily available from the winemaking stores.

· · Potassium sorbate, to stop fermentation, you can get this also at the winemaking supply store.

· · Bottles and corks

· · Campden tablets, these are used to help kill all the naturally occurring wild yeasts and undesirable bacteria in must, but they can also be used to make a sanitizing solution.

Winemaking can be such an enjoyable experience, once you get your winemaking equipment together and get going. Once you make your first vintage, you will be well on your way to becoming a home wine maker

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