Agriculture Reference
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special plastic corks and wire closures that will hold the corks
in place on the bottle.
Wine bottles come in 375 ml and 750 ml sizes. You will need
five of the 750 ml bottles or ten of the 375 ml bottles for each
gallon of wine that you are bottling.
Consolidated Equipment List
The following list will make it easy to get everything you will
need for the foreseeable future in one shopping trip. I priced
this out with a well-known Internet beer and wine hobby shop
for $228.60 plus $63.22 for shipping. At that price for
shipping, if you can find the gear locally it is worth the trip.
You could also save some money by only getting the
equipment needed to make one-gallon batches, and the
equipment would only cost $134.75 plus $25.95 for shipping.
These costs also don't take into account that it is often easy to
get wine bottles for free. I get mine from a co-worker who
works part-time at a bar. He brings me a few dozen empty
bottles and I give him a couple bottles of wine yearly.
1 Five or six gallon plastic fermenter with sealing plastic lid
and grommet
1 Two gallon plastic fermenter with sealing plastic lid and
grommet
2 Five gallon secondary fermenters, preferably glass
2 One gallon secondary fermenters, glass jugs
1 Cleaning brush for carboys
