As expected the wine equipment arrived on scheduled Friday. We decided to go with making 1 gallon batches of wine to start with. It's a lot better to ruin 1 gallon rather than 3 or 5 gallons. We can always upgrade our equipment later, once we get the hang of it. It shouldn't be too difficult, fermentation is a natural process, anything we do can only make it better, right?
Beginning with the green wine bottle and working clockwise, we bought a dozen green wine bottles appropriate for making fruit/red wines. A couple of 1 gallon glass secondary fermentation jugs. A 2 gallon primary fermentation bucket. On top of this bucket are number of various sanitizers, yeast, acid adjustment, pectin enzyme, yeast nutrient, campden tablets, air locks and stoppers. The big red thingy is a corking machine. We decided to get the medium priced corker. This one is mostly metal, the cork holder is plastic or nylon, hopefully it will hold up to regular use. Available for this corker is a capping attachment so that when we enter the brewing phase we can have a decent bottle capper. Still in the package is a small auto syphon - something usable with the gallon jugs. The upright tubes contain a hydrometer (for measuring specific gravity), a cylinder for holding the sample when taking specific gravity and a wine thief (collection tube for taking samples). A bag of corks and a syphon tube. Having watched the included video I have already made a list for another order for more equipment. A thermometer (which I meant to get with this order but forgot), a couple more secondary fermentation jugs and a bottling wand (to ease bottle filling). A couple of batches and we will be ready for more bottles too.
Perhaps this weekend I will be able to get the first batch of Tayberry wine started.
Beginning with the green wine bottle and working clockwise, we bought a dozen green wine bottles appropriate for making fruit/red wines. A couple of 1 gallon glass secondary fermentation jugs. A 2 gallon primary fermentation bucket. On top of this bucket are number of various sanitizers, yeast, acid adjustment, pectin enzyme, yeast nutrient, campden tablets, air locks and stoppers. The big red thingy is a corking machine. We decided to get the medium priced corker. This one is mostly metal, the cork holder is plastic or nylon, hopefully it will hold up to regular use. Available for this corker is a capping attachment so that when we enter the brewing phase we can have a decent bottle capper. Still in the package is a small auto syphon - something usable with the gallon jugs. The upright tubes contain a hydrometer (for measuring specific gravity), a cylinder for holding the sample when taking specific gravity and a wine thief (collection tube for taking samples). A bag of corks and a syphon tube. Having watched the included video I have already made a list for another order for more equipment. A thermometer (which I meant to get with this order but forgot), a couple more secondary fermentation jugs and a bottling wand (to ease bottle filling). A couple of batches and we will be ready for more bottles too.
Perhaps this weekend I will be able to get the first batch of Tayberry wine started.
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