Getting into Wine Making

Hey everyone

got some homebrew equipment from a friend who was cleaning out his basement. Went up to the local homebrew store on saturday and got an island mist blueberry pinot noir kit and some sanitizer.

Will I be ok, using the 6.5 gallon bucket with the spigot or my 6 gallon carboy for the primary fermentor should i use that or the carboy for primary or should i go buy a bigger 7.5 gallon bucket or the 6.5 carboy?

thanks for the help!

6.5 gallon bucket will be close, but for a kit wine you should be OK. If you want to do a high end kit with grapes or a fruit wine, that will be way to small.

6 gallon carboy for secondary and aging is perfect.

I'm going to be doing an island mist kit

Well I just finished mixing up the kit! I followed the directions to the letter. Just Waiting for the temp to go down 5 degrees it was sitting at 80 degrees when I tested so covered and i will let it sit for a couple hours and check temp then pitch the yeast when it goes down to between 65 and 75 and cover

Good thing about Island Mist kits is that you can drink them within a month of bottling!!!

Wine yeast don't need low temps.