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Wednesday 7 August 2013

Some Of The Ideal Wine Making Kits For Beginners

By Nita McKinney


Winemaking at home is a great hobby pursued by many. There are a number of reasons that would compel people to distil wines at home. One of them is its high price while another may be the poor quality or selection in the outlets available. The use of a kit is a basic method used in the process. The method is cheap and has low risks, hence making it ideal. The kit come in a variety of types, and some even have instructions about the brewing. This article is all about wine making kits for beginners.

To facilitate the distilling of the drink at home, three different products are required. They are a juice recipe kit, an equipment kit and bottles. When about to get started, choosing equipment kit is the most important step. The ideal equipment kits are inclusive of all the components needed to produce approximately six gallons of the drink using concentrate.

Starter winemaking equipment contains everything a beginner may need to distil at home, maybe with the exception of bottles and a juice kit. Winemaking is definitely easier than brewing beer. A person does not need to boil the ingredients, and the results are always consistent when concentrate kits are used. However, the process does require more patience when compared to beer brewing. A wait of between two and six months is normal.

A double stage fermentation process has to be followed for satisfactory and completed winemaking. An ordinary kit consists of a glass carboy of six gallons, a plastic fermenter of seven gallons together with its lid, stoppers for the fermenters as well as a bottle brush. Extra equipment are a wine hygrometer, an airlock, a shut-off valve, plastic corks and plunger corkers, a siphoning and racking tube, a bottle filler and instructions manual.

The average beginner kit comes with four different corker upgrades. Each and every piece of equipment is similar with the exception of the corker. No kit is any harder or easier to make than its substitute. To put it simply, the more money a person spends in buying a kit, the higher the quality of the drink made. All one has to do is select the style of drink they would like and they are ready to go.

Roughly 29 or 30 standard 750ml bottles will be needed to store the gallons of drinks made. This is about two crates each made up of twelve bottles, and an extra six bottles. Shipping grass is not recommended for use as it is expensive due to its weight.

Most winemakers will keep the empty bottles as soon as they have finished drinking them. Once they have collected enough bottles, they will wash them out and then used to store the drinks they make.

When purchasing wine making kits for beginners, starting with the cheap ones first is advisable. It is recommended that an upcoming winemaker get a simple package that will just be enough to make the first bottles of drinks. They can then upgrade later on.




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