Carboy
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A carboy is a glass or plastic vessel that is often used in fermenting beverages such as wine, mead, and beer.
Carboy: A glass or plastic container that looks like an office water-cooler bottle or a large jug. Carboys usually come in five-gallon volumes and are used for fermenting juice, carrying out secondary fermentations, and for long-term storage.
Carboy
Glass or plastic bottles used for home winemaking. These come in a wide range of sizes, from 1 litre up to 20 litres and even larger.
Cask
This a large wooden container for making or storing wine.
Carboy
(a.k.a. secondary fermentor) Usually a clear glass container is used although plastic is acceptable. The traditional carboy has a shape similar to a "stubby" beer bottle but, of course, it's much larger. In fact it needs to hold 23 litres.
As second carboy becomes full, or sediment begins to flow clamp the hose.
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Cap newly filled carboy with an airlock.
carboyLarge glass jug or bottle used in winemaking. casa vinicolaAn Italian term used for wine firm. caseA case of wine typically holds 12 750ml. bottles, equaling 2.38 gallons. caskA wooden barrel.
a carboy or demijohn) and covered by an airlock. Even though the wine is now in a secondary fermentation vessel, the alcohol fermentation taking place is a continuation of the primary fermentation. See Secondary Fermentation for contrast.
Carboy
A large glass or plastic bottle.
Chaptalize
To add sugar to a must or wine.
Chewy
Full-bodied, rich, tannic wines
Citric acid ...
6-gallon glass carboy
Airlock
Drilled rubber stoppers to fit the fermenter, airlock, and carboy
Hydrometer
Long handled bottlebrush
No-rinse sanitizer
Corker and corks
Racking tube with anti-sediment tip
5-foot siphon tube ...
2 litre carboy to which you wish to add 20 ppm SO2, multiply 0.35 by 19.2 to get an SO2 addition of 6.7 mL of 10% solution. Consider making up your own spreadsheet giving SO2 additions for your own sizes of barrels and carboys.
So we'll skip the more technical side - the actual winemaking process, with its fermentation techniques, its additives, its carboys, its hydrometers, its racking, its bottling - the whole shebang.
 See also: Wine, Bottle, Fermentation, Grape, Alcohol
  
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