The homebuilt winery

Here is all the information you need to set up a home winery and build all of the basic equipment -- & nbsp;for just a fraction of the cost of store-bought. Steve Hughes includes building plans and step-by-step instructions for more than 30 winemaking essentials, including a crusher, a de-stemmer, presses, pumps, and a bottle filler. He even offers a range of options for cellar racking. Along the way, Hughes leads readers through the entire process of winemaking--how to use the equipment, how to set up a winery, the best ways to store and analyze wine, and the best ways to filter, bottle, cork, and label. With this guide, you'll have everything you need to affordably enjoy delicious, high-quality, homemade & nbsp;wine.

Includes index.

The home winery: an overview -- Grape & fruit processing. Crusher -- Manual destemmer -- Foldable, rollable wine press -- Punch-down tool -- Fermentation cooler -- Fermentation chamber -- Moving wine. Winery dolly -- Racking canes & hoses -- Siphon pump -- Vacuum pumping setup -- Wine hoist -- Barrel dolly -- Container management. Barrel Room -- Diamond wine bottle rack -- Silicone bungs -- The home wine laboratory. Hydrometer -- Lab support stand -- Malic acid test -- Chromatography chamber -- Free SO, testing setup -- Gram scale -- Sparkling wine. Riddling rack -- Disgorging freezer -- Disgorging key -- Disgorging receptacle -- Filtering, bottling and labeling Bottle tree -- Wine filter -- Rinser-sparger -- Four-spout bottle filler -- Label alignment jig -- Your wine cellar. Drawing cellar plans -- Ladder racking jig -- Ladder racking -- Curved corner racking -- Waterfall racking -- End cap shelves -- Diamond bins -- Building the backyard vineyard. Cutting propagation bed -- Vineyard trellis -- Barrel fun. The "Winedirondack" chair -- Decorative barrel stand -- Winery stool -- Making your own toasted oak.