Wine with a beer kit

[mak104]

My first batch of coopers kit beer is carbonating.After I bought the coopers kit, midwest had a deal that gave you a free beer making kit with the purchase of a $125 gift card, so I got it.Is there any reason I can't use the buckets for wine? Can I go back and forth with them? I wouldn't think a cleaned plastic bucket could harbor enough particles of either to stop me.Thanks

 

[Yooper]

Sure, you can use the same equipment for beer and wine. With a wine, you also have to have a properly sized carboy. The buckets are fine for primary, but when the wine is racked it has to go into a carboy. If you're making wine kits, then a 6 gallon carboy is required. Otherwise, all the other equipment is the same. Normally, for most beers, you don't need the carboy at all. That's about the only difference.

 

[mak104]

Thanks Yooper.I don't know if I should trust someone who only has 52,000 posts.

 

[BrewPharm]

Thanks on this! I was thinking the same thing recently. How about bottling in beer bottles with crown caps? Is there an issue if they are consumed in a set time frame?

 

[Yooper]

Thanks on this! I was thinking the same thing recently. How about bottling in beer bottles with crown caps? Is there an issue if they are consumed in a set time frame?

No, that's fine. I even bottle some early drinking wines in grolsch bottles with the flip caps as they hold two glasses of wine so it's a nice size.