Barrel Chains This is a very economical way to add oak character to your wines if buying a new barrel is not in your budget. The chains are a system of lengths of new, toasted oak that are inserted through the bung hole of a barrel. The top end is secured to the underside of the bung to ensure easy extraction when the desired oak level is reached.
The sets are connected with food-grade nylon and come with a stainless steel screw eye for connecting to the bung. Approximately 7 sq.ft. of surface area per set. Available in French and American oak.
Bungs
Once you have your wine in the barrel, you will want to keep it there! All our bungs are made of 100% food-grade silicone and provide an excellent airtight seal to prevent oxidation and leakage. Available as solid bungs (39 mm & 50 mm) or as breathable bungs (39 mm & 50 mm) for barrel fermenting.
Barrel Cleaner (Sodium Percarbonate) Short of investing in a costly ozone system, this is probably the best product available for cleaning barrels, pumps, hoses, filters…even your coffee pot. Sodium Percarbonate is an oxygen based, granular cleaning agent with over 20% available oxygen. The balance of breakdown products are water and sodium carbonate, which makes this an environmentally friendly product.
Sulphur Sticks Now that you have made your wine and cleaned your barrel you will need to keep it sterile pending the next wine. One of the simplest ways to create an SO2 atmosphere in your barrel is to burn a piece of a sulphur stick. Very inexpensive and it can save your barrel
