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Equipment and Gear
Home winemakers have a lot of options related to equipment, from different sizes and styles of presses, fermenters, filters, and even corks and bottles. Know your options and then choose the one that fits your needs and budget.
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Kegging Wine
In contemporary times beer and soft drinks have become the standard beverages to find on draft at bars and restaurants, but that is changin
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Tune Up: Calibrating your wine testing equipment
What good is having a thermometer or titration kit if the numbers you are getting from them are off? Make sure you are properly calibrating
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Monitoring Your Wine: What to test for and when
There are some winemakers who practice the age-old philosophy that the wine will take care of itself . . . but for those who want to produce
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Fermentation and Aging Containers
Fermentation and aging vessels winemakers have to decide between include oak, glass, plastic, and stainless steel. Each has its own pros and
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Build a Wine Barrel Table
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Fermenter Options for any Size Home Winery
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Build a Ladder-Style Wine Rack
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Build a Carboy Cleaner
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Design your Home Winery
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Using Variable Volume Wine Tanks
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Build a Champagne Bottle Capper
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Build a Backyard Vineyard Sprayer
Need a sprayer for your backyard vineyard? Build this system designed for a 1,000-vine (2-acre) vineyard. Follow our guide.
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Choosing and Using a Wine Pump
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Small Space Winemaking Techniques
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In the Wine Lab
As a home winemaker, testing your wine for certain things like Brix and pH are critical, while other tests are optional. Get to know the equ
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Harvest Planning
The better you plan for grapes to come in, the smoother the big day of harvest and crushing grapes will go. Do you have all of the equipment
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Degassing Wine Kits with a Vacuum Pump
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Barrel Care Techniques
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Using Variable-Volume Fermenters
Variable-volume fermenters have a floating-lid that transforms these tanks into variable-capacity containers for fermentation as well as sho
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Choosing a Filtering System
Winemaking is not a science but rather an art. There are many opinions on the pros and cons of the various processes that winemakers use. Th