Nice KITty
I would not call concentrates a kit. When I think of "a kit", I think everything you need to produce wine, in a box, except for bottles and corks. And maybe you have to add water to that as well.
Concentrate is just the juice and you probably have to add water. You pick the yeast, add meta bisulphite, maybe extra sugar, add your own flavoring pack.
Kits also come with fairly detailed instructions, add this now, wait 14 days, add that.
That sounds like, well just plain common sense!
Both Concentrates and Kits gives you the magic beans;
Yet in both cases, you still need to have extra stuff:
With the concentrate - one is really on his own and only given
a general(ly incomplete) guideline
but in the kit's case (pun intended), there are the necessary packets...
that allow one to follow a prescribed dogmatic process step by step successfully.
Bottom Line:
Wine Style kits are concentrate + X
X = a specific process + some of the required chemicals unique to said wine style.
Sort of what common sense told me but it helped to walk through terms here.
What started me was wondering why I needed to acid test; shouldn't the company have done that before they canned it for me? (I had read somewhere that kits already had been adjusted)
but I bought concentrate and kits
CONTAIN concentrate, so I should be covered right? but they didn't
SAY concentrates so you see how I got here, right?
Looks like I need a lunch break. Thanks for letting me get my thoughts in order. Nice KITty.
