Make Great Wine Without Spending a Fortune on Equipment Whether you have a cellar stocked with homemade vintages or are a recent convert to the rewards of home winemaking, you are likely to need some new equipment. The Homebuilt Winery provides complete building plans for 43 winemaking projects, pieces that facilitate the entire process of turning grapes into wine -- from crushing and destemming to bottling and labeling. Each project includes thorough step-by-step instructions, building diagrams, an illustration of the completed piece, and instructions for use. A home winemaker and experienced…mehr
Make Great Wine Without Spending a Fortune on Equipment Whether you have a cellar stocked with homemade vintages or are a recent convert to the rewards of home winemaking, you are likely to need some new equipment. The Homebuilt Winery provides complete building plans for 43 winemaking projects, pieces that facilitate the entire process of turning grapes into wine -- from crushing and destemming to bottling and labeling. Each project includes thorough step-by-step instructions, building diagrams, an illustration of the completed piece, and instructions for use. A home winemaker and experienced builder himself, Steve Hughes understands every step in the winemaking process and has designed projects that are useful and durable, yet easy to build with only basic carpentry skills and materials. Using his building plans, you can do anything from replacing a few worn pieces to building an entire home winery.
Steve Hughes is a home winemaker who also has more than 40 years of experience as a building designer and contractor. He regularly contributes articles on building winemaking equipment to WineMaker magazine.
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Acknowledgments Foreword by Daniel Pambianchi Introduction Chapter One: The Home Winery, An Overview Chapter Two: Grape & Fruit Processing Crusher Manual Destemmer Foldable, Rollable Wine Press Punch-Down Tool Fermentation Cooler Fermentation Chamber Chapter Three: Moving Wine Winery Dolly Racking Canes & Hoses Siphon Pump Vacuum Pumping Setup Wine Hoist Barrel Dolly Chapter Four: Container Management Barrel Room Diamond Wine Bottle Rack Silicone Bungs Chapter Five: The Home Wine Laboratory Hydrometer Lab Support Stand Malic Acid Test Chromatography Chamber Free SO2 Testing Setup Gram Scale Chapter Six: Sparkling Wine (Methode Champenoise) Riddling Rack Disgorging Freezer Disgorging Key Disgorging Receptacle Chapter Seven: Filtering, Bottling & Labeling Bottle Tree Wine Filter Rinser-Sparger Four-Spout Bottle Filler Label Alignment Jig Chapter Eight: Your Wine Cellar Drawing Cellar Plans Ladder Racking Jig Ladder Racking Curved Corner Racking Waterfall Racking End Cap Shelves Diamond Bins Chapter Nine: Building the Backyard Vineyard Cutting Propagation Bed Vineyard Trellis Chapter Ten: Barrel Fun The "Winedirondack" Chair Decorative Barrel Stand Winery Stool Making Your Own Toasted Oak Index