WINEMAKING SUPPLIES, GRAPES and JUICE
for amateur winemakers.
Fall Bright, The Winemakers Shoppe, 10110 Hyatt Hill, Dundee,
NY 14837
607-292-3995
GETTING STARTED
Marcy checking Brix. Tom crushing and destemming a grape order. Juice is ready to pump into your container, grapes will be crushed into your open top container, never a carboy.
To Start winemaking, you'll need.
- Juice: 5 1/2 to 6 gallons juice for 5 gallons finished wine. OR
- Juice: 5 gallons, topping up with finished wine, to yield 5 gallons.
- Red Grapes at the rate of 12-13 pounds per gallon, fermented on the skins.
- White Grapes at the rate of 15 pounds per gallon cold pressed. Do not ferment white grapes on the skins.
PLUS
- PATIENCE
- BATF clarification
- Books, information.
- Carboys. You'll always need an empty one for racking.
- Bung to fit (#6-#7) and an airlock
- Siphon hose and racking tube for racking.
- A bottle filler for the end process of filling bottles. Attaches to end of siphon tubing. This fills from the bottom up, displacing enough wine for corking when removed.
- Hydrometer (triple scale: potential alcohol, Brix, specific gravity) to test the sugar level BEFORE fermentation.
- Corn sugar (Dextrose) to adjust "Brix" or sugar.
- Yeast: Your pick, our recommendation. 1 pack per 5 gallons.
- Potassium Metabisulfite: an anti-oxidant and anti bacterial additive. Recommended rate of 20 to 40 ppm, the lesser amount for red as it has bleaching characteristics. This is added at racking. It can also be used for cleaning and chasing chlorine rinses.
- (Campden Tablets are a tablet form of Sodium Metabisulfite for use in small lots. One tablet is 120 ppm in 1 gallon)
- +5-5 Hydrometer to check sugar at the end of fermentation. A
negative 2 reading is dry, dry, dry. A positive 1degree 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) Lesson page.
- adjust "Brix"
- airlock
- Corks
- Corker
- Bottles
- Hydrometer
- +5-5 Hydrometer
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