Homemade wines made with love and diligence will always be the decoration of the holiday table. Even if it is not possible to make grape wine, there will always be fruits or berries for that, to create a drink with a beautiful bouquet of taste and aroma. Special equipment for wine at home will greatly facilitate the process of its production, will help to enjoy winemaking.
Containers for wort and wine
First, where to start home heating equipment - the purchase of containers, in which the wort will ferment, as well as strain and store wine. It can be:
- Glass bottles,
- Oak barrels and barrels,
- Stainless steel tanks.
As for the use of plastic containers and utensils for wine production, made of other metals, must be taken into account, that wine alcohol has the property of acquiring the taste of that material, from which the container for its storage is made.
It is advisable to buy dark glass bottles for wine storage, wine is stored better and longer in such vessels.
Grinding of raw materials
There are special crushers for grapes and fruits for this operation. Ці пристосування можуть бути
- Manual - for delicate grinding of a small amount of fruit,
- Mechanical - to work in intensive mode and speed up the process.
Grape crushers can be equipped with a comb separator for that, to separate the branches (ridges) from grapes.
Pressing the pulp
No wine production at home can do without the separation of the juice from the pulp. The press will perfectly cope with this operation, it can be manual or mechanical.
- The manual press is a basket for the squeezed out weight with apertures, equipped with a mechanical head with handles.
- Mechanical (hydraulic) the press is a basket for crushed pulp with a membrane in the center, increases when it is filled with air.
Under the basket of any press there is a pallet with a spout for draining the squeezed liquid. After collecting the valuable juice - gravity, the remaining mass is pressed until it is completely squeezed.
Fermentation and filtration
Wine in fermentation tanks must not come into contact with oxygen. Спеціальні бродильні ємкості для сусла обов’язково оснащені водяними затворами. They allow you to remove carbon dioxide and protect the wort from air, as well as allow you to control the end of the fermentation process. Hydrometers are used to measure the alcohol content of young wine.
Fermentation is followed by a stage of filtration and removal from the sediment. The purpose of this stage is to separate wine from yeast, dropped to the bottom of the tank, so as not to impair its quality. The following wine equipment has been created for this purpose, as a filter - press, equipped with a pump. Passing through the filter cardboard of this device, wine is purified from colloids, microorganisms, mechanical and adsorption particles. The device is equipped with a manometer, controlling fluid pressure. The wine after such filtration is significantly clarified.
Maturation and capping of wine
Extraction of young wine gives it a special taste and aroma, especially if it takes place in oak barrels. Tannins and tannins of oak add a unique accent to the overall bouquet of the drink. If the maturation of wine is planned to be carried out directly in bottles, then for the production of the beverage created flow and vacuum filling machines. Their advantage is that the contact of the drink with oxygen is minimized during bottling, which guarantees its quality.
Capping of bottles is convenient to carry out by means of the special device for reliable placement of a stopper in a neck.. These devices, mechanisms and devices greatly facilitate the work of the winemaker to make wine at home.