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My thoughts exactly. That’s why I am still waiting.

Cool I was looking for such a calculator. Very helpful!!!!! Thank you

SG of the same juice without added sugar = 1.064

I used red star dady activated yeast which is advertised up to 15%. It was a busy day yesterday so I did not get a chance to do the SG for the juice. Hopefully will do it today. So lets say hypothetically speaking if my original SG was 1.15 and now my SG is 1.026 and it won't go any lower, it...

@KCCam First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to go over the thread and summarize what happened. You spent time and effort going over my work so I could never take it as being snarky rather someone who is genuinely trying to help. I am really learning a lot. As for the recipe, I...

Its currently in a carboy.

Thanks guys for all the help. When you add the starter / nutrient do you leave the carboy open to air (with a cloth on top of it) or do you keep it under airlock?

@sour_grapes sorry I wasn't clear. I don't have years nutrients, so i was thinking about activating yeast and then adding it to the carboy instead.

yes its actually floating. The wine tastes sweet, but not dessert wine sweet. The airlock is not levelled yet. So there is some CO2 coming out but I actually can't see bubbles in the carboy. @sour_grapes I was thinking about restarting my fermentation. I was thinking about starting fermentation...

Hi Guys, I thought I'd give you guys an update on the process of my current batch. A bit of a background. This batch made out of grape juice. fermentation started May 22nd. Unfortunately I don't have a starting SG. The reason is that my hydrometer broke and I bought another from from amazon. i...

Another interesting thought, how small is too small for bottling wine?

@SpoiledRotten Amazing. thanks

@Rice_Guy Thank you. The smaller bottles will likely get consumed earlier than the larger bottles, which will reduce their storage wine and by default lengthening the storage of the larger bottle (win/win?). I think it will attempt it and tape around the cap and neck well. I have 270 ml glass...

Thanks guys. @GaDawg and @StFrancis do you think using the old screw cap, screw it tight then applying tape will be good enough instead of a proper beer cap? @mainshipfred sometimes it stretches to over 2 weeks as well that’s why I thought about the smaller bottles. I am no where near producing...

I have been thinking about this for a while, so i did a quick search on this forum and couldn't find the answer so I hope this thread is not a duplicate. During the time I lived alone I was a big fan of half bottle portions at my local wine store (375 ml). Remembering this got me interested in...

Amazing journey. I am also on the Grape Juice to wine wagon at the moment. So hopefully both of us end up producing some enjoyable wines. Keep us posted :)

Thanks @winemaker81 . I am not using a kit, rather grape juice. My hydrometer got damaged and I ordered another one. Thats why I can't take a SG reading at the moment. I kept it open to air (no airlock for 48h) then put the airlock on. It was bubbling rapidly for a good week then started to slow...

Thanks @Johnd . When you transfer to a clean carboy do you add campden/kmeta if the fermentation hasn’t completed to help protect again O2? Or do you worry about stopping the fermentation and not add it in this racking?

Dear all, I have been reading a lot about racking and it seems there is a lack of consistent information out there (or at least my perception of the information is somewhat inconsistent). There are three opinions I found on the web 1- If you are making wine out of a kit or juice (not from actual...

Thanks @cmason1957 . I have one, so I'll report back after using it on my wine (just out of curiosity to see what happens).