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What Equipment I need to make wine?
What I mean is, what equipment is actually necessary to make a decent, drinkable wine (peapod or otherwise) out of the veggie-and-fruit bits I have access to?
Periodically I scan the Ebay listings for winemaking kits, and am inevitably offended at the $80-plus-shipping for what appears to be a couple of pickle buckets and some bits of glass tubing. On the other hand, my husband still bears the childhood scars of his parents' winemaking experiments using cider jars and balloons, and turns funny colors when I bring it up. I bring the question to you lot because I assume that you are less hobbyists than drinkers and therefore want a practical, drinkable, self-sufficient-y product that doesn't require running to the hobby shop every ten minutes.
Thoughts?
Thanks.
Hey joseph,
I've never made wine myself (largely because these days alcohol and me don't get along as well as we used to), but I've always thought it was a fascinating process. Wine making goes back thousands of years, and like bread making it seems to have been developed in some form by nearly every culture. So it can be a little disappointing to see that modern methods seem to imply that you need all sorts of equipment and chemicals that have only recently become available.
I started some elderberry wine recently and the only thing I bought was an airlock, camden tablets and some wine yeast. I used a plastic bucket we already had and we've had a demi john hanging around for years was once used to collect pennies in.
I've been told you can use bread yeast but it may not come out well and also that any container can be used as long as it can be covered to stop anything getting in but allow gases out. Though anything that’s plastic would be more likely to explode.
This is the first wine I've ever made
Are there any beer/wine making stores near you? I live in the middle of nowhere and there's an excellent store about 75 km (50 miles or so) away which has all the goodies. I haven't been in lately, but I'm thinking of heading there and seeing what they have to say. I'd like some input here, too, though. After all, it's in the store's best interest to sell me as much as possible, when I want the absolute minimum required!
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