Monday 24 March 2014

Essentials of a Wine Making Kit- to have one’s own Winery!

Preparing wine at home has been an ancient exercise and process. In earlier times, distilling grains to make wine for usage at home was a common practice. The making of wine at home thus isn’t something impossible, and today not at all a trouble either with the new technology that has made possible the invention of something like the small wine making equipments, putting together which would complete the wine making kit that can be most comfortably used at home for the purpose. Preparation of homemade wine to quench the thirst is thus not unreal, provided one can form an idea of the equipments required for the same!

Wine making often becomes a hobby with many, with the wide range of wine making kits available in the market at an absolutely affordable price. Kits ranging from preparation of 5litres to 20litres thus makes a perfect small winery right at home a possibility. The necessary items needed and present in a small kit should be fermenting equipments of various kinds, corks, bottles and all other additional tools. A small kit usually contains:

Carboys
Carboy brush
Bottle brush
Bung and corks of various sizes
Seals
Corking tools
Cane holder
Hydrometer
Siphon tubing
Clamps
Pumps
Bottle filler and bottling equipments
Oxygen wash

Various companies will have differences in arrangement and ranges and measurements of the tools but more or less these are the major tools in the small handy wine making kit. The carboys can be of various shapes and sizes. They serve to be the most important part, serving the purpose of containing the liquid for fermenting. Carboys have fermentation locks that keep the bacteria and oxygen out from disturbing the fermentation process. They are the basic containers used for fermentation of wine or beer at home. The carboys are also called demijohns when they are used in this brewing process. Bottles, clamps, holders and tubes are required to be set up in the small corner at home to create the working winery. The instructions are often given in DVDs to help and guide a person in setting up the entire system. Instructional DVDs and recipes also form a part of the kit. The procedure of set up and making of wine beginning with buying the wine making kit is thus a simple process, all that is required above everything is the patience that preparation of wine demands.

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Wednesday 19 March 2014

Mini Wine Pack for Weekend Parties - A Clean Shot!

Juice tetra packs and cold drink cans have been familiar bits in our daily lives. Tetra wine packs are a comparatively recent thing to come into the scene with probably the high rate of increase in consumption of the same at all informal parties. A party with chilled beer and wine is something that has got an impetus in the modern ways of life. There are increasingly more number of parties being arranged in outdoor spaces these days. Parties by the pool, along sea beaches, on terraces, in lawns and gardens, which are away from the home space or the bar counter that makes the arrangement of drinks a little difficult. The usage of mini wine packs makes it much easier in a number of ways.

The mini packs are much easier to buy and carry and the portability itself makes it a favorite with weekend parties. The cartons with packs can be bought, easily carried and distributed. It keeps away the necessity, cleaning and danger associated with glasses. Breaking a glass and the mess is most neatly avoided and the disposal of the used packs is much easier too. The party does not suffer the troubles of setting up a drinks table, nor the mess and precautions associated with wine bottles and glasses, or the non-availability of drinks or the need of cleaning up post-party fun.  The tetra packs make the arrangements at the party all the more easier.

 

The mini packs are also much more popular among people because of the difficulty of preserving the alcohol in a bottle already opened. The unused wine in a bottle might go waste and it is difficult to prevent it from oxidation in the open. Oxidation of wine remains a major concern, which is saved with the mini packs.
Though mini wine packs might lack a little of the panache associated with drinking, the positive points associated with the usage of these at parties weigh heavier than the negative points. The buying, carrying and distribution are only the least of the easy ways with mini packs, they make it much easier to not leave out wine at outdoor parties at the beautiful settings of sea beaches and pool sides.

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