Wine Making Equipment Kit

by The Home Brewery

Product Features

• Versatile equipment kit, perfect for making wine from fresh fruit and grapes or wine kits.
• Starter booklet included to walk you through every step.
• Comes with an easy to use double lever corker, requires less physical strength than a hand corker.
• This kit is equipment only - no ingredients are included with this kit.
• You can count on The Home Brewery for support after the sale!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 33 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0006UFY6O
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,998 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #68 in Kitchen & Dining > Home Brewing & Wine Making > Wine Making

Product Description

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for starters but it's not complete, October 20, 2009

By 

J. Adkins (St. Loius, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 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.

8 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars wine kit, May 14, 2007

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Leonard Kaplan (Oklahoma City , OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wine Making Equipment Kit

one of the better kits I have seen and would tell a friend too.
Making the firest bach of wine now. thanks

4 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars poor service, February 1, 2010

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Celso Suarez - See all my reviews
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I never reeived this shipment and I am in he process of placing a claim for the charges on my credit card