Fresh Juice Pail Shopping List (Fall)
When you skip the kit and ferment a 6-gallon pail of California juice, this is what you add to your beginner setup.
Fresh juice arrives late September. Wider flavor, more decisions, more pride. This is the additional gear you need the year you graduate from kits.
What's on the list
Grouped by store aisle so you walk the shop in order — in and out without backtracking.
Juice
- Fresh juice pail (red or white)
Yeast & Nutrients
- RC212 yeast
- Fermaid-K (two-stage feeding)
Chemistry
- K-meta (bulk powder)
- Campden tablets
- Digital scale
- pH meter
Tools
- Large funnel
- Refractometer
Oak
- French oak cubes
Who it's for
- Kit-graduates ready for fresh juice
- Anyone scheduling a fall pickup from a California crush
- Winemakers who want to pick yeast and oak themselves
Why you'll love it
Two-stage nutrient plan
Fermaid-K dosed at the right times keeps fresh juice from stalling.
Daily SG without rinsing
The refractometer is the difference between checking once and checking daily.
Oak that integrates
Cubes go in post-primary; you taste weekly until it's right.
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