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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2020
The wine yeast was dead in the pack I used. I have so many yeast types in my house for breadmaking and I'm kicking myself for not using one of them because they all seem to respond to warm water forming a "cap" of yeast on the surface of the luke warm water. The "wine yeast" that came with this kit did nothing. I thought maybe because it was a special kind of yeast it didn't need to activate in the same way so I wasted a large batch of our garden grapes only to have absolutely nothing occur in the primary fermenter for going on 4 days now... The recipes are kind of useless given this kit is marketed to first time home wine makers. The directions don't mention how to do much of anything. I had to research online to find answers to so many common questions you think might be answered in a few paragraphs in their otherwise large pamphlet of recipes. I would also have appreciated a cap for the secondary fermenter for when I'm done fermenting the wine... Also, all recipes are in %-age tartaric. It would help tremendously to break that down for the first time brewer to something more easily understood/tested for (like Ph value).
Otherwise, the kit contains most of what you need to get started, but you do need more items than are available in the kit (it is not complete by any means). I'd recommend getting bottles, corks, corker, hydrometer, and wine ph strips to test the acidity (or %-age tartaric?). DEFINITELY get some wine yeast too as it seems the yeast I got in my kit was dead as a doornail!
Otherwise, the kit contains most of what you need to get started, but you do need more items than are available in the kit (it is not complete by any means). I'd recommend getting bottles, corks, corker, hydrometer, and wine ph strips to test the acidity (or %-age tartaric?). DEFINITELY get some wine yeast too as it seems the yeast I got in my kit was dead as a doornail!
