Mini Wine Making Kit with Simple Syphon

The Almost Off Grid Mini Wine Making Kit is for you if you have a traditional glass demijohn in your garage and you fancy making some wine. We supply other kits including a PET demijohn or a food grade bucket for homebrew, but this kit is intended for when you have a demijohn already.

The Mini Wine Making Kit includes:

• 1 traditional cork bung, prebored with a hole, designed to fit in the neck of a standard 1 gallon (4.5 litre) glass demijohn
• 1 bubbler airlock with loose fitting cap to keep dust out, the neck of which fits exactly into the bored hole of the bung to create a seal
• 1 stick-on thermometer
• 2x sachets of wine yeast, one suitable for making red wine and the other for making white or rose. Each 5g sachet will treat up to 5 gallons (23 litres) of wine, instructions for use are included on each sachet.
• 6 reusable corks with red rubber tops which fit into the neck of recycled standard bottles previously fitted with corks (not screw caps)
• 1 kraft tag. We use these for recording each step and date when we make our wine, then keep it tied to the demijohn neck
• A glass hydrometer transported in a plastic tube which doubles as a trial jar, with instructions for use included inside
• A simple syphon including a sediment trap to help move wine from one vessel to another leaving sediment behind, and a tap to control flow when bottling
• A basic guide to making wine and beer at home.

If you wish to know the alcohol content of your finished wine, you have a hydrometer in the kit. Please remember that to do that you need to take a reading at the beginning of the process and at the end to be able to make the calculation - instructions are included in the storage jar.

Please note that you will need to sterilise your equipment with either a proprietary homebrew cleaner/steriliser or Muntons steriliser is also fine. Fermenting vessels (such as bucket or demijohn), steriliser, ingredients and bottles are not included - this kit assumes you already have the demijohn, steriliser and whatever else you need to get started making the wine recipe of your choice.