Winemaking Equipment & Ingredients List - Prepare Ahead
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Winemaking Equipment & Ingredients List
For most beginners, the hardest thing about making wine is simply figuring out, in advance, what equipment is going to be needed. This list should set most of these fears to rest.
FOR WHITE WINE - Primary fermentation: 6 Gallons of Capacity in a sealed fermentor glass or PET carboy (water bottle), demijohn or stainless wine tank, with a fermentation lock and drilled rubber stopper fitted to the opening.
FOR BOTH RED & WHITE WINE - Secondary fermentation - 5 gallon of capacity in a glass or PET carboy (water bottle), demijohn or stainless wine tank, with a fermentation lock and drilled rubber stopper fitted to the opening.
Extra glass jugs, each with a fermentation lock and #6 drilled rubber stopper. These could be gallon size or smaller.
We have developed a worksheet for your harvest math. It will help you estimate volumes in the field and winery to estimate your needs for fermentors, totes, press size, and bulk storage capacity.