Brewing kits are like micro versions of the large scale manufacturing of commercial breweries. Brewed beverages may be alcoholic or non-alcoholic. The common characteristic of these drinks is that they all went through a fermentation process.

Wine brewing process mainly involves the mixing of wine yeast – not the beer yeast which ferments faster, the sugars, and the different flavours – usually from fruits that are in season.

Commercial beers generally follow a common process whatever the brewery may be. First step would be the grounding of the malt. It would then be placed in a mash tub where water would be added. A cereal mash is cooked and is added to the mixture. The starch in the cereal mash would be converted into sugars by the malt. The blend is then poured into a brewing container and hops are added at intervals. It is then filtered and the remaining liquid is stored in a vat where yeast is added for fermentation.

These large scale processes can be replicated in smaller amounts through either commercially sold brewing kits or assembling a kit of your own.

Assembling your own kit for brewing wine, however, may be a bit more tricky than home brewing beer. It is best, for example, for a fermenter to be made of glass because you will be fermenting your mixture for a longer time than you will need for your beer. Plastic containers normally pass on its smell to its contents and you don’t want that to happen. It is also best that the brewing container has an airlock so it is best to buy one instead of looking for a substitute from the kitchen. But aside from these, wine brew kits can normally be put together from materials around the house.

Although kits for beer are more abundant than kits for wine, there are a lot of online resources for the latter. The lack of kits may be because the processing of wine is just like cooking. You peel your fruit, remove cores, mash it, and generally just extract its juices. In beer making this could be the grains or the malt. Your yeasts can be prepared beforehand. These are fed with sugar and are kept at certain temperatures to have their very beneficial community thrive. The juice extracts are then mixed with the yeasts and the mixture is allowed to ferment for some days. The pulp is then strained out to leave the “wine”. If for beer, refermenting is very much avoided – in fact this is why filtering and pasteurization processes happen after the fermentation and before storage, for wine making, it may be the opposite. Thus, to buy a bottle of wine made centuries ago by people long dead is a lot more expensive than buying a bottle made just a year ago.

It is very simple to create your own wine. Chemicals are even unnecessary in wine making procedures. Except for the pectic enzyme, most are useless and will only make your mixture unnatural. You don’t have to buy brewing kits – you can just assemble your own.