Wine Sense carries a complete line of equipment to make wine or beer. From our Starter Kit for the new winemaker to all the gadgets you might want, to make winemaking as fun and easy as possible. We have all the basics like primary fermentors and carboys to start your wine, to labels and shrink tops for that professional finish. The following list contains some of the more popular and necessary items we carry. Cleaning & Sanitizing Equipment Keeping your equipment clean and sanitized is one of the most important aspects of making your own wine or beer. Wine Sense stocks a wide selection of products for making this as simple as possible: NEW! Our Pembina Highway store recently installed an Automatic Bottle Washer. Simply bring in your 30 bottles and fill the rack- 8 minutes later your bottles are washed, cleaned and sanitized. So next time your getting ready to bottle- take the easy way to sanitizing and use our Pembina Highway store's Automatic Bottle Washer. Sparkle-Brite is the most important tool for cleaning and sanitizing. Chlorine based, this pink powder should be used by all wine or beer makers and is the most effective way to keep your equipment clean & sanitized. Sodium Metabisulphite is a reusable sanitizer for clean equipment. Aseptox is a no-rinse, odor free sanitizer for clean equipment. Carboy Caddies fit across your sink or laundry tub to hold your carboy upside down to easily rinse them out. The Quick Tap Connect works great with the above Carboy Caddie and is also useful for filling primaries and carboys. Avvinators pump sulphite solution or Aseptox into your clean bottles for quick and easy sanitizing. Bottle Washers come in three models and shoot a high-pressure spray of water into your bottle or carboy for quick rinsing. Bottle Trees are a great way to hold your bottles while cleaning them and getting them ready for filling and corking. Brass Carboy Wands fit directly on your faucet for rinsing carboys. Fermentation Equipment As well as the necessary pieces of equipment like Primary Fermentors and Carboys, Wine Sense also carries some other tools that make fermentation a little easier. Here is a sample of some of the more popular pieces: Bag De-cappers are a simple little tool for getting those pesky yellow caps off of the bag your wine kit juice/concentrate comes in. Heat Belts are good for keeping your fermentors warm if your house is a little cool. Syphon Clips are a simple little device that holds your syphon in place when syphoning your wine or beer, avoiding sediment disturbance. Digital Thermometers stick onto your primaries or carboys and provide a quick and easy way to check your temperature. Carboy Handles and Carboy Carriers are both handy ways to carry a carboy. Especially useful when carboys are full. Auto-Syphons automatically start your syphon so you don't have to get a mouthful of partially fermented wine. The Thief is a quick and easy way to take samples of wine for hydrometer readings. The Whip fits into your drill so you can easily de-gas your wine. Save your arm for holding a glass of wine, instead of stirring 23litres of it. Filtering Equipment One of the easiest ways to improve your wine is to filter it. Filtering will take out small particles that are naked to the eye but when removed leave your wine with a commercial polish. The nice thing about filtering your wine is that it actually forces the wine ahead in its evolution. As wine ages certain flavour and colour compounds combine and settle out leaving sediment. This aging process enhances the wine by leaving a clean smooth flavour. Because filtration does such a good job of removing these compounds it effectively force ages the wine. Wine Sense carries the following equipment for all of your filtering needs. The Buon Vino Mini Jet Filter is the industry's most popular filter. This compact unit will filter your wine in under 15 minutes. Wine Sense sells or rents the Buon Vino Mini Jet Filter. Buon Filter pads are the only filter pads that meet the Buon Vino standard and Wine Sense stocks the Buon Vino Mini Jet pads and the Buon Vino af-2 and af-3 pads for the round plate system. Bottling and Corking Equipment From cleaning to corking Wine Sense has all the handy gadgets to make this as fun and easy as possible. NEW! Our Pembina Highway store recently installed an Automatic Bottle Washer. Simply bring in your 30 bottles and fill the rack- 8 minutes later your bottles are washed, cleaned and sanitized. So next time your getting ready to bottle- take the easy way to sanitizing and use our Pembina Highway store's Automatic Bottle Washer. Avvinators pump sulphite solution into your bottles for quick and easy sanitizing. Bottle Washers come in three models and shoot a high-pressure spray of water into your bottle or carboy for quick rinsing. Bottle Trees are a great way to hold your bottles while cleaning them and getting them ready for filling and corking. Bottle Fillers make filling your bottles quick and easy. Attached to your syphon they shut-off automatically and fill your bottles to the appropriate level. Hand Corkers insert the cork into your wine bottle. Floor Corkers make corking easy. The unit will hold the bottle for you and easily inserts the cork by simply pushing down on the handle.