Review of Wine Making Equipment Kit with Merlot Ingredient Kit

kit was great, however, instructions to the applications of the different chemicals was lacking. good buy

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Making 6 gallons of top quality Merlot is easy with this Wine Making Equipment and Ingredient Kit. Merlot has a full, fruity intensity, deep in color with black cherry and berry aromas. Wine making is a hot hobby right now, as people are realizing the outstanding quality of wine you can make at home at a fraction of the cost of buying it commercially. You just cant go wrong with the quality of WineExpert Ingredient Kits. They take all the guesswork out of making the highest quality wines time after time. No acids to test and balance, no sugars to add, no pH to worry about, it is all taken care of for you in the latest, state of the art facilities, leaving you to quite literally just add water. This is the fun and easy way to make great wine you will be proud to serve to your friends and family. The versatile equipment kit accommodates the winemaker using fresh fruit, grape juices and concentrates as well as those using winemaking kits. It comes with an easy to use double lever corker that requires less physical strength than a hand or plunger style corker. The kit is easily expandable as you become more advanced, nothing is wasted. The Equipment Kit includes: 7.9 gallon Plastic Wide Mouth Fermenter with a Lid; 6 gallon Better Bottle Plastic Carboy with Stopper; Airlock; Hydrometer; Racking Tube with anti-sediment tip; 5 ft Flexible Tubing; Bottle Filler; Carboy and Bottle Washer with a faucet adapter; Easy Double Lever Corker; 30 Wine Corks; Starter Booklet; and Sanitizer. The Ingredient Kit includes: 10 Liters pure varietal juice and juice concentrate, Wine Yeast, Clarifier, Stabilizer, Oak (when appropriate) and detailed instructions.

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Review of Wine Making Equipment Kit with Chianti Ingredient Kit

Okay, so you've never made wine before.You're worried about it.Is it complicated?Doesn't it take a year?

It's easy.It takes a little over a month with these kits.It's not messy.It's fun.

Assuming you can follow simple written directions, you will make over 25 bottles of excellent tasting Chianti red wine with this kit.That's maybe $6 (or less) for your first 25 bottles and that pays for your equipment, so next time it'll even be cheaper.

My wife and I like the Chianti. We have also made the Pinot Noir and the Mesa Luna.I wouldn't hesitate ordering any of Vintner's Reserve kits.

Oh, and to double the fun, use a simple business card program to make your own wine labels. Makes a great gift.My first batch of red wine has a drawing of a policeman arresting a guy and the name: "Dry County Red"

Okay, so you're wondering about where do I get the wine bottles?Obviously you drink wine, so start saving your own wine bottles.Any good restaurant on a Saturday evening will be throwing away 30 or 40 wine bottles, and they will be glad to let you have them.

Once you've made wine in a month or so with these kits, you might want to make your own wine from raw fruit, grapes, honey or whatever, and that wine does take longer, at least three months, sometimes up to a year to age and clear.But this kit can handle that, too.You will need a cheesecloth or nylon mesh bag to hold the fruit in.



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Making 6 gallons of top quality Chianti is easy with this Wine Making Equipment and Ingredient Kit. Chianti is a robust, dry, Italian red with a subtle accent of oak. Aging will enhance its complexity. Wine making is a hot hobby right now, as people are realizing the outstanding quality of wine you can make at home at a fraction of the cost of buying it commercially. You just cant go wrong with the quality of WineExpert Ingredient Kits. They take all the guesswork out of making the highest quality wines time after time. No acids to test and balance, no sugars to add, no pH to worry about, it is all taken care of for you in the latest, state of the art facilities, leaving you to quite literally just add water. This is the fun and easy way to make great wine you will be proud to serve to your friends and family. The versatile equipment kit accommodates the winemaker using fresh fruit, grape juices and concentrates as well as those using winemaking kits. It comes with an easy to use double lever corker that requires less physical strength than a hand or plunger style corker. The kit is easily expandable as you become more advanced, nothing is wasted. The Equipment Kit includes: 7.9 gallon Plastic Wide Mouth Fermenter with a Lid; 6 gallon Better Bottle Plastic Carboy with Stopper; Airlock; Hydrometer; Racking Tube with anti-sediment tip; 5 ft Flexible Tubing; Bottle Filler; Carboy and Bottle Washer with a faucet adapter; Easy Double Lever Corker; 30 Wine Corks; Starter Booklet; and Sanitizer. The Ingredient Kit includes: 10 Liters pure varietal juice and juice concentrate, Wine Yeast, Clarifier, Stabilizer, Oak (when appropriate) and detailed instructions.

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Review of Wine Making Equipment Kit

This is a reasonably good quality equipment kit for making the standard 6 gallon wine kits.

The kit comes with a 6 gal carboy (large clear bottle shown) but for making wine from raw ingredients, a carboy matching the size of the batch to be made (usually 1 gal or 5 gal) will also be needed.

In addition to what is included with the kit, the following will be needed: 30 - standard 750ml used or new wine bottles (not the screw cap type), a very small $2 package of meta bisulfite ( 1/4 teaspoon per 6 gal batch will be used), a 4" funnel, one or two 2L clean soda bottles for the cleaner, a $15 thermometer capable of reading from 32-120 degrees F. (the juice must usually be in the 60-80 degrees range for fermentation to occur), a bucket to catch overflow when bottling, and a wine degasser $20 (a long rod with fins on the end that is used with an electric drill to remove CO2).Cardboard wine boxes with dividers are helpful to hold empty bottles and the full ones awaiting corks.

Hand corkers, like the one included with this kit, are hard to use. After making a few batches a floor corker may become attractive - the $60 plastic jaw floor corker works great.

The Better Bottle plastic carboy included with this kit is a definitely better than a glass one.It won't add off flavors, is much lighter than a glass one and won't shatter.It is helpful, but not essential, to have a second $28 plastic carboy, a $2 airlock and a $2 stopper (bung).

The included powdered cleaner/sanitizer (usually "1-Step" or "Easy Clean") is all that is needed for bottles and equipment as long they are diligently cleaned immediately before and immediately after they are used. Mix about 2L at a time and don't save or reuse it. Rinsing is not required. An extra $3 bottle brush mounted on an electric drill will make bottle cleaning a snap.

Avoid detergents and bleach because they will permanently impart their flavors to the plastic equipment and then to your wine.The are also difficult to completely rinse off of glass and metal.

The included racking cane (a hooked plastic tube) works but a $12 auto-siphoning racking cane would be a big improvement.

Starting off with a white wine kit will allow you to see more of what's going on and help you perfect the task of siphoning the wine without sucking up the solids. For those who can't wait several months to begin tasting, white wine also tastes better when very young.

In summary, with the addition a few missing parts and a little tweaking, this equipment kit is a good start for those interested in making modest sized batches of wine from wine juice kits. If you intend to make wine from raw ingredients, you will need gain a fuller understanding of what the recipe requires to determine if the kit is complete.







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This versatile equipment kit accommodates the winemaker using fresh fruit, grape juices and concentrates as well as those using winemaking kits. This kit contains equipment only, it does not include any Ingredients. If you are needing ingredients too, please click on the link above to see all The Home Brewery Products.  The Equipment Kit includes: 7.9 gallon Plastic Wide Mouth Fermenter with a Lid; 6 gallon Better Bottle Plastic Carboy with Stopper; Airlock; Hydrometer; Racking Tube with anti-sediment tip; 5 ft Flexible Tubing; Bottle Filler; Carboy and Bottle Washer with a faucet adapter; Easy Double Lever Corker; 30 Wine Corks; Starter Booklet; and Sanitizer.

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