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GETTING STARTED
Marcy checking
Brix.
Tom crushing and de-stemming a grape order. Juice is ready to pump into
your container, grapes will be crushed into your open top container, never
a carboy.
Welcome to the world of winemaking…. making
your own wine! Stretch your wine
budget! Come to Fall Bright, The
Winemakers Shoppe, Keuka Lake East, WAYNE LOCATION,
10110 Hyatt Hill, Dundee, NY 14837.
607-292-3995.
Visit our sites at www.101winemaking.com
or shop securely online right here from right menu at www.fallbright.com.
We can provide you all you need to start making your own wine.
To simplify the list of stuff you need, pick up our basic winemaking
equipment kit.
These Basic Starter kits include a 7.8 gallon
fermenting bucket with a drilled lid with a grommet for an airlock, a 5 or
6 gallon PET carboy, one small Buon Vino drilled stopper (bung), a 3
piece airlock, a triple scale hydrometer and a jar, a self-adhesive fermentation
thermometer, a 21” rigid racking wand for 3/8 tubing, 5 feet of
3/8 tubing, a spring bottle filler 3/8" tubing, wine bottle brush,
B-Brite (8 ounces) cleaner and a beginner book "Enjoy Home
Winemaking".
Basic Starter 5 gallon
PET..... $95.29
Basic Starter 6 gallon PET.... $97.29
Our Deluxe kit includes a hand corker and
corks (25 for 5 gallons, 30 for 6 gallons).
Deluxe Kit 5 gallon PET..... $144.67
Deluxe Kit 6 gallon PET..... $148.55
Items
not in your equipment kit that will need to be purchased at the time of
winemaking:
- Concentrate kit: Wine
Concentrate Vintners Kit OR Spagnols
Kit. We drop ship these
kits. See our list or make a request.
- Juice: 1/2 gallon more juice than you need
for a finish volume of 5-7 gallons. OR
- Juice: The final volume needed and plan on
topping up with finished wine.
- Red Grapes at the rate of 12-13 pounds per
gallon if fermented on the skins OR
- White Grapes at the rate of 15 pounds per
gallon cold pressed. Do not ferment white grapes on the skins.
· Potassium Metabisulfite, an
anti-oxidant and anti bacterial additive used at a 40-80 ppm (parts per
million). This
is added at racking. It can also be used for cleaning and chasing chlorine
rinses.
7 oz.... $3.50
1 lb... $7.49
·
Corn sugar to adjust the Brix of
the juice to 21-23%. 5 pounds $5.25
If you use cane sugar, heat it in juice to convert to simple
sugar. Purchase includes our squatty sugar funnel free. Woops,
how much do you need??
·
Yeast,
your pick, our
recommendations, nitrogen sealed, vacuum packed for 5-6 gallons. If
you open a pack of yeast for just a 1 gallon batch, use the entire pack.
·
Yeast nutrients:
-
Go
Ferm is a micronutrient to aid in the re-hydration process of dried
yeast.....
26 grams... $1.95
-
Fermaid
is to increase nutrient content in juice or must and is classified as an energizer
2 oz $2.99
-
DAP:
Diammonium phosphate is a grape juice or must nutrient.
2 oz $1.59
Different
sizes of additives, nutrients are available, go to the additive page
We have a full line of additives to reduce and increase acid, to inhibit yeast
and lots of other supplies.
·
Wine bottles are not in your kit.
You will need 24-25 bottles for each 5 gallons to bottle.
Save them, ask friends to save, rinse and drain.
You do not want a bottle that was not rinsed. Check recycling centers, 3 liter to gallon jugs are great to
have, also. Ask us what we have for sale. Right
now we have green screw top port bottles, some misc used.
BATF
clarification
(1) 200 gallons per calendar year for a household in which two or more
adults reside, or (2) 100 gallons per calendar year if there is only one adult
residing in the household. How
about that?
Sure
there is more! Drop by, we have summer hours Wednesday to Saturday and online
shopping 24/7. We will not hold up
your online order! It will be shipped in
24-48 hours, ASAP!
Did
I forget to mention that we have brewing supplies, too?
PLUS
- PATIENCE
- Books, more and more information.
Enjoy Home Winemaking is in the kit.
- Carboys are a clear glass or PET "jug" of different
sizes. We have 3,5, and 6 gallon jugs or carboys. You'll
always need an empty one or a bucket
for
racking, which is the process of transferring wine off the lees
(sediment) into a clean carboy or container.
- Bung to fit (#6-#7) and
an airlock, which are in the
equipment kit.
- Siphon hose and racking tube for racking, which are in the equipment kit.
- A bottle filler for the end process of filling bottles. It attaches to
end of siphon tubing and fills from the bottom up, displacing enough
wine for corking when removed. This is in the equipment kit.
- Hydrometer
link to how to read your hydrometer, (triple scale: potential alcohol,
Brix, specific gravity) to test the sugar level BEFORE
fermentation. This is in the equipment kit.
- Basic Understanding of
winemaking parameters
- Making Wine from Juice,
including yeast starter
instructions
- Red Grapes to Wine
- +5-5 Hydrometer to check
sugar at the end of fermentation. (NOT in your kit). $20.99
A negative 2 reading is dry, dry, dry. A positive 1degree or a 0
reading has some sugar left and is not safe to bottle unless Sorbate (in
combination with Potassium Metabisulfite) is going to be used. See
Bottling Sweet Wine (Sorbate)
- Acid
Reduction and
- pH at
101winemaking.com
- Acid
Addition Chart at 101winemaking.com
- You will need bottles: 750 ml standard bottles: 2 dozen plus 1per 5
gallons of wine. ~30 for 6 gallons (750 ml)
- Home
- Information
at 101winemaking.com
- Special
Wines: late harvest and more at 101winemaking.com
- Grapes and Juices
Luci at the register. Stuff
and more stuff
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