Bung -A stopper used to seal a bottle or barrel. Commonly used term for corks.
Butt -An old English unit of wine casks, equivalent to about 477 litres (126 US gallons/105 imperial gallons).
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Bung: The plug that seals the opening of a wine barrel.
Bung Hole: The opening of a wine barrel that allows wine to be added or removed.
Bung
Commonly used term for cork.
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Bung - The wooden or silicone rubber stopper in a wine cask.
Burnt - Hot country smell, as if the wines have been given too much heat.
Bung: The primary closure for barrels, hammered into place with a wooden hammer. Bungs are normally made of hardwood (but softer than the oak used for barrel staves to avoid damaging the bunghole when opening and closing the barrel).
Bung
A rubber donut-looking thing that fits into the hole in the lid of the Primary Fermenter and the mouth of the carboy.
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Used to seal the small round opening in a wine barrel.
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[edit] Bung A stopper used to seal a bottle or barrel. Commonly used term for corks.
[edit] Burnt wine Another name for Brandy, a liquor made from distilled wine. It is often the source of additional alcohol in fortified wines.
Bung
A stopper used to seal a cask, keg or barrel.
Canopy
The shoots, and leaves of the grapevine during the growing season
Cap
The layer of skins and pulp that forms on top of the juice during primary fermentation.
Bung: In cooperage, a wooden stopper used to seal the cask, keg or barrel. In glassware, usually a rubber stopper used to seal a demijohn, carboy or jug.
1 bung/airlock, and one solid bung to fit the demi-johns
Siphon tube
2 Campden tablets
Thermometer
Hydrometer
Large Casserole type pan for boiling water
Large Funnel and sieve that fits within it
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Fermentation Lock: Also called airlocks, these plastic devices fit over the tops of carboys or into bung holes of barrels to allow any gas produced by wine to escape while keeping out air.
These devices, available from supermarkets and kitchen supply shops for about £6 (US$9), use a pump with a special rubber bung to create a partial vacuum in the bottle. This reduces the amount of air in contact with the wine.
However, in the manufacture of sherries, the slightly porous oak barrels are deliberately filled only about five-sixths full with the young wine, leaving "the space of two fists" empty to allow the flor yeast to take form and the bung is not ...
In addition, the wine barrel naturally allows in air through the gaps in the staves, and through the bung-hole when the winemaker opens up the barrel to top it up with wine after some is lost through evaporation.
The cask is filled only four fifths of its volume and the bung is not completely sealed. In this way the oxygen will enter the cask while allowing the evolution of wine.
 See also: Wine, White, Taste, Full, Tannin
  
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