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My Watermelon Wine Experience Julie, Thanks for the advice. This is my first attempt at a non-grape wine. Fermentation seemed to go fine (no off smells and nice pink color). Final alcohol should have been around 10% (I chaptalized to 20.5 Brix). After 4 days, it read 1.5 Brix...

My Watermelon Wine Experience I just made a failed attempt at Watermelon wine using the recipe in the June/July issue of Winemaker magazine. The fermentation went just fine (I kept it around 60 F with the fermenter in a large bucket of water w/ ice in it). Chaptalized the...