Equipment
| Books |
| Bottling Equipment |
| Bottles |
| Fermenters/ Aging |
| Measurment Tools |
| Sanitation |
| Starters |
| Sweeteners |
| Yeast |
| Miscelioneus |
Books
Bottling Equipment
There are a few companies that make these they are generally the same, I found mine on Amazon. It makes siphoning go much smoother.
Amazom.com carries Ball-lock keg systems, they are not cheap I recommend starting with some used equipment and upgrading as you go. Here is a used system that is reasonable priced.
Amazom.com carries corny kegs, they add a nice touch to your home made beers as well as your sparkeliing wines and cidars. These corny kegs make botteling a snap they are really nice espically if you don’t want to deal with botteling.
Fermenters/ Aging
Amazom.com has lots of 5 Gallon Glass Carboys, they are nice for every thing from the primary fermenting to racking or even aging.
I found this bucket on amazon, its ported so it could be used to bottle as well as primary fermentation or even aging.
Better bottle is leading the way with plastic carboys. They make them in 3, 5 & 6 gallons.
All of them are the cats meow.
These are all over the web…but for what you’ll pay to have them shipped you might as well just buy some cheap wine and drink it. You’ll have more fun that way 🙂
Measurement Tools
You can get a good triple scale hydrometer right on amazon, there cheap and really useful. I can’t imagine trying to make homemade wine with out one.
If your going to make a small batch of wine or if your homemade wine is in a carboy then you will need a Hydrometer test jar to test your sugars
Sanitation
If your going to be cleaning more that one bottle this is a must have! What makes it even better is that you can even use it to clean out Carboys.
I use this every time I bottle it is by far the easiest and fastest way to sanitize a bottle before filling, just mix up a cup or so of your favorite sanitizing solution.
Starter
These are great for making starters. You can put then right on the stove to achieve desired temp and then put on a stopper and vapor lock.
Sweetener
Yeast
Lavin high quality dry yeast packet. Recommended uses:Blush, Whites, Nouveau, Young Reds & Juice from Concentrates. Fast fermenting, produces up to 14% alcohol.
Lavin high quality dry yeast packet. Recommended uses:Whites, Fruit wines, Concentrates, Stuck Fermentations & Cider. Fast fermenting, produces up to 18% alcohol.
Lavin high quality dry yeast packet. Recommended uses:Champagne,Dry Meads,Late Harvest, Secondary & Stuck Fermentations. VERY fast fermenting, produces up to 18% alcohol.
Miscellaneous
You can buy your brew pot in almost any size you want, I bought a 5 gallon. I got mine off amazon they have lots of different sizes
There is no better way to dry empty beer bottles than with this tree…trust me I have tried a lot of things. Then I bought two of these and saved my self a lot of headaches,
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