spinnychick
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Background:
I have a 1gal batch of strawberry/saskatoon wine that is 22 days old. On day 7 I strained the fruit from it and put it into a 1gal glass jug and a 750ml wine bottle. I had taken an sg reading initially and while I was straining the fruit, but in a moment of mass ineptitude I kept my notes in my work area and totally ruined it. No clue what the sg readings were either time, although i do recall that it seemed a little high when i took the first reading. It didn't concern me at the time because I was fully expecting to make mistakes the first time around, and i just figured if it ended up tasting flammable it would mix with sprite. I used lavalin 1118 yeast (not EVERYTHING vanished from my head when I wrote it down)
Now:
It has been bubbling happily ever since. Out of curiosity, I did an sg reading on it today, and it says 0.092. I thought 097-099 were supposed to be around the time that fermentation stops, but it's still bubbling like sprite. It's relatively clear too, enough to see some bubbles coming out of the lees. Again, I'm not horribly concerned, but is this a common thing to happen?
Vikki
I have a 1gal batch of strawberry/saskatoon wine that is 22 days old. On day 7 I strained the fruit from it and put it into a 1gal glass jug and a 750ml wine bottle. I had taken an sg reading initially and while I was straining the fruit, but in a moment of mass ineptitude I kept my notes in my work area and totally ruined it. No clue what the sg readings were either time, although i do recall that it seemed a little high when i took the first reading. It didn't concern me at the time because I was fully expecting to make mistakes the first time around, and i just figured if it ended up tasting flammable it would mix with sprite. I used lavalin 1118 yeast (not EVERYTHING vanished from my head when I wrote it down)
Now:
It has been bubbling happily ever since. Out of curiosity, I did an sg reading on it today, and it says 0.092. I thought 097-099 were supposed to be around the time that fermentation stops, but it's still bubbling like sprite. It's relatively clear too, enough to see some bubbles coming out of the lees. Again, I'm not horribly concerned, but is this a common thing to happen?
Vikki
It would help if the instructions that came with a hydrometer weren't written for somebody who already knows how to use it well enough that they don't need instructions. 
