Home winemaking equipment is not complicated equipment. Often times you do already have some of the equipment necessary. There are many beer and wine making stores popping up in most areas, so a quick searchonline will find you the winemaking equipment store nearest you. To get you going, you can purchase a winemaking equipment kit and a winemaking kit that will have you making your own home made wine in no time at all. Sounds good!



You can check out what equipment is in a home wine making equipment kit by either taking a look at your local brew shop or do a search online and then list out what the kit includes. Take a look at your cupboards and see if you already have some of the equipment, depending on how much you have, compare the prices for the extra you would need to see if the wine making equipment kit would be a better option. Remember, all things plastic you use must be food safe quality, that's very important. It can happen that often times by purchasing the winemaking equipment kit you will come out in ahead and you need to remember is some of the items will be that purchase only, you won't need to replace each time you make your wine.

A good winemaking recipe book could be included in the equipment kit but if not then you will need to buy one of these. You could finish up with many wine recipe books over a period of time, they are a little like cookbooks, there is often a better recipe in the book on the shelf, there is that old saying about green grass. In the early stages of making your own wine at home, it can be a good thing to have a few home wind making recipe books until you get into your own way of making wine. You will get into your way of making your great wine.

Your winemaking equipment kit should include these items or something similar.

??A 30-liter or larger food-grade plastic container (similar in shape to a garbage can|like a plastic garbage can) with a non-airtight lid and a mark at the 23-liter point

??A 23-liter glass or food-grade plastic carboy

??An airlock and bung (a rubber stopper with a hole in it) for the carboy

??A hydrometer to check the specific gravity referred to as 'sp. gr.' of the wine

??A long, narrow tube or jar to hold the wine while you're checking its specific gravity (generally the tube the hydrometer comes in works fine)

??A dairy thermometer

??A long piece (at least 1.5m or five feet) of food-grade plastic tubing

??A long spoon that can fit into the neck of the carboy and reach to the bottom

??A wine thief to remove the developing wine from the carboy without having to tip it

You will also need apart from the grape juice or whatever you have chosen to make you wine with the following:

??Good quality water, this normally means filtered water, not the chlorinated water from many town water supplies.

??Wine Yeast, this is best tailored for the type of wine you want to produce, use bread yeast only if you can't get the wine yeast. The results with bread yeast are generally not as good.

??A wine 'settler', you can use sterilized bentonite or isinglass and they should be readily available from the winemaking stores.

??Potassium sorbate, to stop fermentation, you can get this also at the winemaking supply store.

??Bottles and corks

??Campden tablets, these are used to help kill all the naturally occurring wild yeasts and undesirable bacteria in must, but they can also be used to make a sanitizing solution.

Winemaking can be such an enjoyable experience, get your winemaking equipment together and get going. Once you make your first vintage, you will be well on your way to becoming a home wine maker