Where can i find a reasonably priced complete wine making kit?!
Where can i find a reasonably priced complete wine making kit?
I do not want to make 30 bottles - rather a smaller amount - like 4..just for fun. All the kits I see are huge and don't include ingredients or bottles. I would like it to be all inclusive.
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http://cookzon.com/?cat=146224&m=2&q=win...
Check and compare prices:
http://www.homebrewit.com/aisle/1001...
http://www.beer-wine.com/wine-making-kit...
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http://www.midwestsupplies.com/...
You're not going to get a kit for under 5 gallons. It's extremely inefficient at lower volumes. If you want to do less than that, you're stuck buying the ingredients and supplies individually.
The basic ingredients are your juice (grape or otherwise), yeast, and sugar (depending on your recipe).
Basic supplies you'll need are:
Two containers to ferment in...for one gallon, the glass gallon jugs that organic apple juice comes in is ideal.
Some form of sanitizer to sterilize your equipment (absolutely necessary).
An airlock for your fermenter (lets the CO2 out and air/bugs out)
A racking cane and plastic tubing (for siphoning your wine between containers)
There are actually a lot more bits and pieces that you can get that will give better and more predictable results, but for your first batch, not totally necessary.
Just keep in mind some basics...don't use baking yeast (tastes funky), keep everything immaculately clean (do go overboard on this one), be patient, and after a batch or two, you might see the merits of raising the scale to 5 gallon batches. Meanwhile, save your wine bottles or get empties from restaurants. Look up home brewing/wine making stores in your area (better for instant gratification shopping than ordering online).
Here are a couple resources for what you're after...if it's a 5 gallon recipe, it *is* ok to scale the ingredients down to 1 gallon.
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/...
http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/...