Item
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Notes
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Demijohns (Glass fermentation
vessels)
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These are very often available
at
car-boot sales or bric-a-brac stalls. The Americans call then
"carboys".
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Airlocks
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Bungs for fitting airlocks into
demijohns
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Flexible siphoning tube
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Wine filter
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Wine yeast
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Buy this by the sachet as pots
don't keep once opened and sachets are less than a pound.
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Corking tool
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This is vital for putting corks
in.
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Corks
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Shrink-on caps
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Optional
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Bottles
|
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Rigid siphoning tube
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Optional straight tube for
reaching the bottom of the demijohn without disturbing the sediment.
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Sterilising fluid
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Sodium hypochlorite solution, as
used to sterilise bottles etc. for babies.
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Campden tablets (sodium metabisulphite or potassium metabisulphite)
|
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Fermentation stopper (potassium
sorbate)
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Required if you want to
make sweet wine, otherwise its use is optional
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Sugar
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Precipitated chalk (calcium
carbonate)
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Hydrometer
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