Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Tips Foe Selecting Wine Making Kits For Beginners

By Nita McKinney


For those thinking about pursuing a hobby in winemaking at home, there is no reason not to go ahead. There are many reasons for making wine at home. It could be the high cost of drinks or lack of selection or quality in the stores available. One basic way of making the drink is by using a kit. This is a low risk and inexpensive method of learning how to make the drink of choice. These kits come in various types, with some of them even including instructions on how to go about it. Here is a look at the best 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.

A beginners equipment for winemaking has all that may be needed to make wine from the comfort of home, with perhaps the only things missing being a juice kit and bottles. Winemaking is seemingly easier to go about than beermaking. A winemaker does not have to bring the ingredients to a boil, while consistent results are guaranteed with a concentrate kit use. However, the maker must exercise patience in the process. A wait of either two or six months is the norm.

For a successful and complete winemaking process, it has to undergo two-stage fermentation. A normal kit is made up of a seven gallon plastic fermenter with a lid, a glass six gallon carboy, a bottle brush and stoppers for each fermenter. Extra equipments are airlocks, plastic plunger corkers and their corks, a drink hydrometer, a racking and siphoning tube, bottle filler, a shutoff valve and a set of instructions.

An ordinary beginner kit is sold in four different types of corker upgrades. Apart from the corker, all the other pieces are similar to each other. All kits have the same ease when it comes to making them, hence none is easier nor harder. If the winemaker allocates more money to buy a kit, he can be assured the drink will be of a higher quality. Selecting his or her suited style is all they have to do.

In order to store six gallons of the wine, about 29 or 30 standard bottles of 750ml will be required. This amount to about two cases of twelve bottles each and an additional six bottles. It can be quite expensive to use shipping glass bottles as a result of the shipping weight.

When a drinker finishes a bottle of wine, he or she does not discard the empty bottle. Winemakers can hence collect these bottles until they are enough, wash them and then store the drinks they distill at home.

When buying wine making kits for beginners, it is recommended that one starts with cheap wine kit. It is better to buy from a local winemaking store a package that includes the absolute necessities for making the first batch of drink.




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