new to brewing. honey wine suggestions please.

[Steed]

hello i am new to making wine.
i have brewed kombucha successfully many times.
i tried homemade wine at a friends house and would like to brew wine once he gives me 30 grape vine clones next spring and they produce some bushels of grapes.

i am a beekeeper.
i would like to begin brewing with the tools i got.
i have 5 gallons of honey left over from last year and it is nice and aged.
most people dont like the aged honey but it is not bad.

my question is:
what wine making kit would be best and include everything i need to brew honey wine/ mead.
i am going to make traditional honey wine first and later if i grow some nice herbs and spices or hops next gardening season i will make a nice mead to try.

what kit and supplies are needed for my first batch of honey wine?

 

[ChefRex]

No kit necessary, Basic as it comes and is very nice,

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=49106

 

[andrewmaixner]

No kit necessary, Basic as it comes and is very nice,

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=49106

Also popular for simple mead: B.O.M.M https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=429241

 

[Steed]

No kit necessary, Basic as it comes and is very nice,

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=49106

do i need a carboy? can i use a gallon jug with a wide mouth?
(large canning jug with glass top and rubber gasket?)
what i meant by wine making kit is carboy water airlock things like that... according to the post im going to need some sort of wine making kit; unless i can get by without that stuff?
what should i do?

 

[ChefRex]

You can defiantly start with a wide mouth jar, confession my latest batch is in one, you can leave the lid loose to start as you will have a large amount of CO2 being produced but you will need to add an airlock as it slows down.
Simple as a piece of tubing into a jar full of water preferably with a sanitizer or a three piece airlock, buy lots they won't go to waste
Buy some Starsan, cheap and a little goes a long way, boiling water will sanitize but you need to be careful with regular glass but I make Kombutcha and pour boiling water in regular glass and have done it for years, YMMV, just a rambling warning
So much information here, read and absorb, welcome!

 

[Steed]

Nice to know!
Because my jars are large they do not have aluminum lids.
Would this work:
Cover jar mouth with aluminum foil
Put a rubber band around the mouth over the foil
Push hose through aluminum foil
Duct tape around tube and rubber band
Put tube in sterile water in a jar

Wait patiently...

Until I get a carboy and airlock in a few weeks I think this improvised mead make may work.

What is your opinion on this rigged set up?

I have all the ingredients for the mead just not a wine fermenting kit

 

[Steed]

Be careful pouring hot water In glass I broke a jug making kombucha. The water was steaming hot and I poured it In and it cracked open lol. Don't pour too hot, cheap glass is not to be trusted lol

 

[Steed]

UPDATE:
i found a better method for making an airlock on a large mouth jar!
http://www.seasonedhomemaker.com/how-to-make-your-own-fermenting-jar/
i am going to start my brew with a cheese cloth cover and within a week or two i should have some glass lids back from a glass shop and the parts i need to construct the airlock lid in this tutorial. spread this link to anyone who wants to turn a regular canning jar into a fermentor.!