Howdy,
I was noticing that most of the equip. for a Beginner's Wine Kit is pretty much the same as in a Beginner's Beer kit. Can you use the same kit items interchangebly ? (with cleaning, of course). Anyone here actually done it?
Andrew
You can but you should avoid the primary bucket... Louise:o)
I use all my equipment equally between fermentations. I do have a seperate primary for wine (7.5 gal bucket vs 6.5 gal carboy for beer), but I have used my beer bottling bucket (6 gal) for making smaller batches of wine (3 gal) and have never had any time of vinous character in my beer. (Except for a kolsch, but that is supposed to be there) To be honest, I was a winemaker first, and from there moved into brewing.
I do it. However, my old plastic buckets are too brittle and were tossed; I'm using buckets that were used to ship wine grape juice (with built in airlocks!) for my primaries.
If you use something on the end of your siphon for bottling, it's probably not long enough for wine bottles.
And a beer capper won't work on wine corks . . .
hawk
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