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Did you follow step 5?
Step 5: When wine is clear:
Carefully rack off of lees into cleaned & sanitized six gallon carboy
Add 4-5 cups of white granulated sugar (stir until sugar is completely disolved). This will give a SG of around 1.010: Add more or less sugar to taste. Remember! The sugars will blend with the berry flavors over time, and the sweetness will come forward. Do not over-sweeten!
Allow wine to clear free of all sediment: This may or may not require more racking over the next few weeks.
Step 5: When wine is clear:
Carefully rack off of lees into cleaned & sanitized six gallon carboy
Add 4-5 cups of white granulated sugar (stir until sugar is completely disolved). This will give a SG of around 1.010: Add more or less sugar to taste. Remember! The sugars will blend with the berry flavors over time, and the sweetness will come forward. Do not over-sweeten!
Allow wine to clear free of all sediment: This may or may not require more racking over the next few weeks.
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If yours is dry, then you did something wrong as it is not a dry wine. Even with sugar additions on the low end, it will at least be a semi-sweet wine.
As far as the berry flavor, it is light in the beginning but after 2-3 months in the bottle, it really comes forward.
As far as the berry flavor, it is light in the beginning but after 2-3 months in the bottle, it really comes forward.
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What is/was your final SG? If your SG is low you could add more sugar.
I've done maybe half a dozen DB using only the 6lbs of berries that the recipe calls for... Even though DB is a decent early drinker it does improve some with age and have a more noticeable berry flavor than at the start.
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Make sure you stabalize it or it will most likely referment. Then you will have to wait for it to clear again, or if you bottle it you can have corks pushing or bottle bombs. Arne.
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Ok, so I am guessing it was more "young" than dry, even though it is an early drinker.
Yes, 1.030 is very sweet. Shoot for around 1.010 - 1.015 for a semi-sweet to sweet DB.
