Testing

• 13cm Glass Alcohol Meter

• Checks the approximate alcohol content of your wine.

• Full instructions for usage are supplied.

• Please note this is not suitable for checking the alcohol content of beer or spirits and liqueurs. It works best with wines of 8-13% ABV and wines must be degassed so that they are completely free of CO2.

• If you have a very strong wine, dilute it with equal amount of water, then take a reading. If reading ends up inside the interval 8-13% you know you can trust it and in reality it is twice as high.

• An alternative method of use is to dilute your wine and take readings until you get approximately 10%. Then determine the strength from your dilution factor.

• This Spirit Hydrometer / Alcometer measures the alcohol content of distilled spirits only (Ethanol/Water Mix)

• This Alcohol Meter is intended for spirits only. (A pure alcohol/water mix without sugar or other extract substances.) It will not work for wine, beer, liqueur, Turbo Yeast wash etc.

• Full instructions and protective plastic sleeve included.

• This triple scale glass hydrometer is essential for checking the gravity and sugar content of your wine / beer, before during and after fermentation.  The sterilised hydrometer should be floated in a sample of your brew, either in a trial jar or in the fermenter itself. Once settled you can take a reading where the surface of the liquid meets the hydrometer

• Scale one - Specific Gravity - this ranges from 980 to 1200, and also has three, easy to read coloured bands which are for - Start Wine, Start Beer and  Bottle. By taking the exact readings from the scale before the fermentation starts and when completed, you will be able to calculate the alcohol percentage that you have achieved. There is a formula on the label for doing this

• Scale Two - Shows the potential alcohol of your starting brew, and can give a less accurate guide to the alcohol acheived when you deduct your finished figure. This scale also indicates where to stop your fermentation to achieve sweet, dry or medium wines.

• Scale Three - this shows the sugar content of your brew in grams per litre and by using this in conjunction with scale two you can see how much additional sugar you should add to increase the finished alcohol content

• While this all sounds a little complicated, there are full instructions with diagrams on the label. Once you start to use the hydrometer, you will find this extremly easy and useful.

• Food grade plastic pipette - 46cm long x 3cm wide - draws up to 150ml.

• Please note this does not fit all demijohns, for this we recommend the smaller glass wine pipette.

• Ideal for drawing a large sample of your beer or wine from buckets & containers for sampling.

• Simple to use, simply dip to required depth, cover the hole at the top with your thumb to produce an airlock. Remove and the wine thief and your wine comes with it.

• Handy size to take a hydrometer.

• 150ml capacity, 250mm deep, 30mm diameter

• Assists in checking the gravity of your wine or beer by allowing a small sample to be checked.

• A wine thief or pipette would complement this well.

• Assists in checking the gravity of your wine or beer by allowing a small sample to be checked.

• Graduated in millilitres up to 100ml

• 23cm deep, 32mm diameter

• Allows easy sampling of liquid from a fermenter for transfer to a hydrometer jar or a glass.

• Simply dip it into the must, place your thumb over the top hole to produce an airlock and then transfer the sample.  

• Capacity 40mls. 27cm long.

• This pipette is narrow enough to be useable on some of the older-style demijohns that have narrow necks.

• Accurate measuring of your fermentatian temperature is a must. Too high and you can kill off all the yeast, too low and the whole batch stops fermenting. The temperature is also important for successfully mashing your malt when beer making.

• Digital thermometer with a stainless steel probe.

• This is a dual scale thermometer giving readings in celsius or fahrenheit. Temperature Range -50 To +200C, Accuracy +/- 1C

• Battery included

• Accurate measuring of your fermentatian temperature is a must. Too high and you can kill off all the yeast, too low and the whole batch stops fermenting. The temperature is also important for successfully mashing your malt when beer making.

• This is a traditional style glass thermometer, simular to the mercury ones we all used at school. As the inner liquid warms from the bottom, it rises up the inside and a reading is taken where the top of the liquid meets the scale.

• This is a dual scale hydrometer and the temperature ranges are  -10 to 110 Centegrade or 20 to 220 fahrenheit

Self Adhesive LCD Thermometer Strip With Temperature Indication From 12ºc To 32ºc. Ideal For All Fermenters - Barrels, Demijohns And Buckets Etc. 75mm Long x 8mm High.

• Stainless Steel Case.

• Waterproof Construction.

• Total length 31cm

• Easy to read figures in Celsius and Fahrenheit.

• Marked with recommended temperatures for jam, and various confectionary.

   

• Checking and adjusting the acidity of your wine or cider can help improve the balance.

• With this test you can check the acidity and then either reduce it using precipitated chalk or acid reduction soluton or increase it with one of our range of fruit acids.

• Contains all the equipment & reagents to determine acid content.

• Standard Sodium Hydroxide, Acid Indicator Solutions, Calibrated Plastic Syringe, Pyrex Test Tube & Comprehensive Instructions.

• Comes with a colour comparison chart

• Dip the strip for two seconds, shake off excess liquid and compare to colour chart within 40 seconds

• Indicates pH At 2.8, 3.2, 3.6, 4 and 4.4

• Above pH 3.8 there can be harmful microbial acitivity in non-pasteurised juices, therefore you will need to test the pH if you want to perform a natural fermentation of cider or wine.

• Comes with a colour comparison chart

• Dip the strip for two seconds, shake off excess liquid and compare to colour chart within 40 seconds

• Indicates pH At 4.6, 5, 5.4, 5.8 and 6.2.

Acid Indicator Solution for the Ritchies Acid Test Kit.

Sodium Hydroxide Solution for the Ritchies titration / acid test kit

• Spare syringe for the Ritchies Acid Test Kit.

• Graduated in 0.1 ml increments.

• The high acidity of some musts, paricularly cider will erode the graduations on the syringe over one or two seasons. It's always useful to have a spare.