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corking homebrew wine any advice?
By gourmet cooking | March 7, 2010
dazraz posts:
am new to home wine brewing and would welcome any advice
am new to home wine brewing and would welcome any advice
Topics: Wine Making Advice | 4 Comments »
March 9th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
you gotta get the tool for it. pretty cheap
March 13th, 2010 at 12:01 am
I don’t know what advice you are looking for but I have made home made wine many times. Best thing to do is get a book from the Wine making store and read up on it. Cleanliness is most important. Also, I made my wine with the actual fruit. Not those premixes. You can make it alot cheaper than buying one of those boxed wine kits.
Well if it is just corking it, yes you need the wine corking tool.
March 13th, 2010 at 12:41 am
There is a tool that will be helpful in inserting corks – although you can do it without. You can also get shrink wrap covers that you put on over the corks and hold in steam for a moment – they conform to the neck and cork and not only add a finishing touch, they help protect the seal.
But the truly critical part of making wine is cleanliness – you have to sterilize everything – absolutely everything – and use sodium bisulphate to wash your bottles. There is a great gadget that screws onto your tap and allows you to direct a pressure stream of water into your bottles, to make sure they are absolutely clean before you pour your wine in.
March 13th, 2010 at 2:53 am
There are several designs of corking tool. I prefer the ones that compress the cork as well as pushing it into the neck of the bottle. Before using it, you have to boil the corks, keeping them submerged in the boiling water. This sanitizes them and lubricates them.