Home winemaking equipment is not complicated equipment. You may have much of what is needed to make wine in your cupboards. With the beer and wine making supply stores that have opened in lately, obtaining the right wine making equipment should not be any trouble. You can buy a winemaking kit to go with your wine equipment kit from these stores and then all you will need are the bottles and a wait of about 28 days. Wouldn't that be nice? To find out what you will need to make your wine at home, if you do a search on the Internet, you should be able to see what is contained in a home wine making equipment kit. After you get a list of what is in the wine making equipment kit, check through your cupboards, you may have some of what is on the list already. Remember, anything plastic you use will have to be food safe quality, that's very important. It can happen that often times by purchasing the winemaking equipment kit you will come out in front and the other thing to remember is some of the items will be that purchase only, you won't need to replace every time you make your wine. Wherever you buy your wine making equipment, ask if there is a recipe book that is included with the kit, the store keeper for good will, may just give you one to get you started, never hurts to ask, but if not then see if they can recommend a good one to you. You could finish up with many wine recipe books over a period of time, they are a little like cookbooks, there is often a better recipe in the book on the shelf, you know "the grass is always greener". When you are starting out with your home winemaking, then these wine making recipe books will never go to waste. Once you gain your confidence you will begin to experiment with your own wine recipes. Your winemaking equipment kit should include these items or something similar. � � A 30-liter or larger food-grade plastic container (similar in shape to a garbage can|like a plastic garbage can) with a non-airtight lid and a mark at the 23-liter point � � A 23-liter glass or food-grade plastic carboy � � An airlock and bung (a rubber stopper with a hole in it) for the carboy � � A hydrometer to check the specific gravity referred to as 'sp. gr.' of the wine � � A long, narrow tube or jar to hold the wine while you're checking its specific gravity (generally the tube the hydrometer comes in works fine) � � A dairy thermometer � � A long piece (at least 1.5m or five feet) of food-grade plastic tubing � � A long spoon that can fit into the neck of the carboy and reach to the bottom � � A wine thief to remove the developing wine from the carboy without having to tip it You will also need apart from the grape juice or whatever you have chosen to make you wine with the following: � � Good quality water, this normally means filtered water, not the chlorinated water from many town water supplies. � � Wine Yeast, this is best tailored for the type of wine you want to produce, use bread yeast only if you can't get the wine yeast. The results with bread yeast are generally not as good. � � A wine 'settler', you can use sterilized bentonite or isinglass and they should be readily available from the winemaking stores. � � Potassium sorbate, to stop fermentation, you can get this also at the winemaking supply store. � � Bottles and corks � � Campden tablets, these are used to help kill all the naturally occurring wild yeasts and undesirable bacteria in must, but they can also be used to make a sanitizing solution. Once you get your home winemaking equipment together, you will be ready to start making wine at home and impress your family and friends Once you make your first vintage, you will be well on your way to becoming a home wine maker