what is in the contents of a wine making kit?

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as per my other message thread I am deciding on getting a wine kit or two to see If i should make my plums into wine next year. I have a bunch of winemaking bits and pieces given to me, but i need to know what i might be missing, and decide wether to buy the missing parts or a whole kit. I know there was an airlock in the batch, plus a couple of plastic buckets (not 5 gal ones tho).

I suppose this weekend i should dig thru the stuff and inventory what is there. can someone tell me what *should* be there? please dont list every gadget under the sun, just what would be needed to make wine.

Andrew · Accepted Answer

Just do a Google search for wine making kits. You'll find everything listed for you. These items are usually the bare necessities. There's a few extra things that are nice to have too. You'll find this out along the way. Nothing seems to cost more than $10.

Andrew

Jake Speed · Answer

A "wine kit" is the consumables to make a batch of wine. It typically includes wine concentrate/juice (more juice means more $$$), plus yeast, sulfite, sorbate, fining agent.

A wine hardware "setup" (for lack of a more descriptive term) should include at a minimum the following:

hydrometer

5/6 US gallon carboy rubber stopper & airlock 6 to 10 gallon food grade fermenting bucket 5' to 6' racking tube racking tube filler tube hand corker

Nice to have:

bottle draining rack floor corker degassing tool (mounts in a drill, great to have!) stirring paddle (food grade plastic, long handle) extra bottles of various sizes for topup, plus stoppers & airlocks

If I've left anything out, someone please chime in!

Bryan

Joe Sallustio · Answer

Looked good to me if using kits or a recipe. If you're doing fresh fruits, some means of acid testing is needed too. If you buy from a local shop they will usually test for a minimal amount until you are sure you really want to do this. Acid test kits are cheap and reasonably effective; a pH meter is a good investment for someone who is in this to stay.

Joe

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