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Found a recipe you want to brew? You'll need the right ingredients and a little kit. This is an independent, regularly updated list of trusted homebrew and winemaking shops, with a focus on wine, mead, cider and country wine, so you can find honey, fruit, yeast, demijohns and everything in between, wherever you are in the world.
Making wine, mead or cider at home needs surprisingly little to begin with. A typical first batch calls for a fermenter or demijohn, an airlock and bung, a hydrometer for tracking gravity, a sanitiser, and your ingredients: fruit or honey, sugar, wine yeast and yeast nutrient. Most of the shops below sell a starter kit that bundles the equipment, so you only need to add ingredients.
Not sure how much to buy? Every recipe on Demijohn Journal lists its ingredients and quantities, and our free Recipe & Batch Scaler resizes any recipe to your batch before you shop. Once you're fermenting, the free ABV calculator and hydrometer temperature correction tools do the maths for you.
Where to buy homebrew and winemaking supplies in the UK: honey, fruit, wine yeast, nutrients, demijohns, airlocks and hydrometers from established British shops, several with their own recipe blogs.
Homebrew and winemaking suppliers serving Ireland: wine, mead and cider ingredients and equipment, with options shipping across the island.
Where to buy winemaking and mead supplies in the US: fruit, honey, wine yeast, nutrients and equipment from major retailers, several with detailed brewing guides.
Canadian homebrew and winemaking suppliers: wine kits, mead and cider ingredients and equipment, with several shipping nationwide.
Where to buy winemaking and mead supplies in Australia: wine, cider and mead kits, ingredients and equipment.
New Zealand homebrew and winemaking suppliers: wine from kits, fruit or grapes, plus cider and mead ingredients and equipment.
Where to buy winemaking and mead (Met) supplies in Germany: Kellereibedarf, wine yeast, fruit wine ingredients and equipment.
Dutch and Belgian suppliers for winemaking and mead (mede): wine starter sets, honingwijn yeast, ingredients and equipment.
Scandinavian and Nordic suppliers for winemaking and mead (mjöd / mjød): wine yeast, ingredients and equipment across Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
For wine, mead and country wine, look for a shop with a genuine winemaking range rather than a beer only one. You want a good choice of wine yeasts (such as Lalvin 71B, EC-1118 and K1-V1116), yeast nutrient, pectolase, and additives like tannin and acid blend. Shops that publish their own recipes and guides tend to carry fresher stock and are happy to help by email. And if you're making mead, a beekeeping supplier is often the best place to buy honey in bulk.
This is an independent list of 64 suppliers, and we're not paid to feature any shop. Spotted a great winemaking or mead supplier we've missed, or a broken link? Let us know and we'll add or fix it.
For a first batch you need a fermenter or demijohn, an airlock and bung, a hydrometer, a sanitiser, and your ingredients: fruit or honey, sugar, wine yeast and yeast nutrient. Most of the shops listed here sell a starter kit that bundles the equipment together.
Any raw or pure honey works for mead. Beekeeping suppliers (several are listed above) are often the best value for bulk honey, and local beekeepers are a great source too. Avoid heavily processed blends if you want the honey character to come through.
No. This is an independent list, and we are not paid to feature any shop. We chose suppliers with a genuine wine, mead, cider and country wine focus to help you find ingredients for the recipes on Demijohn Journal.
Every recipe on Demijohn Journal lists its ingredients and quantities, and our free Recipe & Batch Scaler lets you scale any recipe up or down to your batch size before you shop.
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