Wine Making Starter Kit – Complete Home Fermentation Equipment for 6 Gallons – Compatible with Wine Recipe Kits

So I received my kit in the mail a couple days ago and couldn't believe all that it came with. It literally had everything I needed except for the fruit and recipes. Luckily, I had a friend who had a recipe book that I was able to borrow...whew...crisis averted! I just recently became more interested in wine so I decided this would be a cool way to get started. My friends and I got together over the weekend and made a project out of it : ] Some pros about the product that stood out : -The instructional dvd explained the process in detail and made it idiot proof haha -The materials provided are definitely of quality and easy to use. -Simple enough for a beginner like me or for an expert to try something new! -The fact that it only takes 28 days and i'll have my own wine to enjoy! I'm definitely impressed with all theI cant wait to see how my first batch of wine comes out!

Items were of good quality especially for the cost. The big mouth bubble takes life easy. It’s a great starter kit and reasonable investment allowing for a taste of making mead in my case without a huge expense. Glass carboy was sold and well made, auto siphoned worked great.

Just getting started on my wine making journey, but this kit so far is very complete and giving me confidence. It not only includes all the tools you need (sans the actual grapes and other edible material) it has nice glossy guides and instructions and tips, as well as links to other resources. The process will take some time so I cannot yet report on my success, but I can say so far so good. Again, you still have to buy actual grapes, etc to go along with this kit, but this kit will point you in the right direction for this part as well

Amazing the amount of quality all the products are from the carboy all the way to the corks that come with it, it is my first time trying to make wine and this comes with all you could possibly need and more to make the wine making process easy to make and understand, From the sanitization all the way to bottling. Amazing

I purchased this kit to make my great-great-grandmother's homemade country wine, for which she just used a ceramic crock and 5-gallon (food-grade) buckets to make (and in today's world, one ceramic crock will cost you the same price as this complete kit!). It's absolutely perfect for making with wine-kits (complete with juice, additives, and instructions for the process). I couldn't be more pleased with the results. The kit has absolutely everything you need... a 6.5 Gallon Primary Fermentor, a 6.5 gallon Glass Carboy Secondary Fermentor, Instructional DVD, Cleaning Cloth, Degasser, 2 Bungs (drilled rubber stoppers), 2 Air Locks, Auto Siphon Racking Cane, Tubing & Clamp, Bottle Filler & Tubing, 24" Plastic Spoon, Carboy Brush & Handle, Bottle Brush, Impact Corker & 30 #8 Corks, Lab Thermometer, Hydrometer, Test Jar & 3-Piece Thief, Sodium Metabisulfite (for sterilizing), OneStep (cleanser), and 2 Fermometers. The only items it doesn't include are the wine bottles, fruits and/or juices, sugar and yeast for fermentation, but that is all you will need to supply yourself, outside of this kit, to make excellent homemade wine! I am one happy camper and will recommend this product to anyone. I'm super excited to taste my first batch of Grandma's Country Wine made in this kit, which will be ready in 27 more days! Woohoo! I've seen other complain that the corker isn't good enough, so I may add an update review, when my batch is completed and I have used the corker.

This kit isn't too bad for the price if you factor in the time saved having to do research and getting your own stuff. For the most part, everything in the kit is fairly nice with a couple of exceptions. The glass carboy is very nice and it includes an attachable handle which makes moving/tipping it much easier. The airlocks and bungs all fit well with each other and with the holes in the carboy/fermenter without any problems. The auto siphon is good quality and works without issue. The main and largest problem is that the plastic fermenter that is included in this kit is the "big mouth bubbler" which by itself is actually pretty nice. The problem is that it comes with their new "universal" lid which instead of screwing onto the fermenter and making a tight seal, it's got soft silicone rings that press fit into the mouth of the fermenter. The problem with this is that even the slightest amount of pressure build up from CO2 causes the lid to pop out of the mouth and break the seal, letting in who knows what into your wine/beer/cider/mead. I can't seem to keep it properly sealed for more than 2 hours without taping or weighing down the lid. For some reason, they've known about this problem for years (check reviews for the lid on northern brewer) and still choose to not make a proper screw down lid or address the problem at all. As much as I love the vessel itself, the lid makes this basically the worst fermentation vessel you can use. You'd be better off with a bucket from home depot. The rest of the included items range from "okay" to "pretty good" rather than "near useless". The corker is very basic and requires a good bit of hand/arm strength and leverage, so if you're not someone like that you'll have to get someone to help you or get a lever corker instead. The wine thief is also fairly basic. It works, but since it's a three piece plastic unit you'll get some drips/loss of holding power through the seams. This isn't a huge problem as long as you're quick with it, but there are nicer ones out there for sure. Lastly the tubing that comes with the kit is fairly short. When racking wine you want to make sure that the bottom of the tubing reaches the bottom of the new vessel you're transferring to in order to minimize splashing and oxygen exposure. It's possible to do this with the included tubing but your new vessel has to be fairly close to the vessel you're transferring from. I ended up buying a 6 foot length of tubing from my local home brew store so I can actually rack from my kitchen counter to a vessel on the floor, and this is the minimum length I would suggest but 7 feet might of been better. All in all I don't regret buying this kit, but if someone asked me going forward I'd probably tell them to avoid it purely because of the lid issue and either get another kit or just piece one together themselves.

We are very excited to start making wine at home. We have a family recipe that we plan to try and then we hope to try many different flavors. My husband has made wine before and he thinks this is a great set that has everything you need to get started included in it. I am hoping that we get this going soon. We can have it brewing and then share it with friends later. We bought 2 of them.

I've started my first batch, it has pretty much everything you need, but no instructions. Alll of it came unbroken. Kit works good, and I'm excited to see what the wine turns out like.