I have a huge problem with my grape jelly wine that needs to be fixed soon so I can add yeast.
I am making a six gallon batch.
Using 18 lbs of Concord grape jelly.
Tuesday night I mixed up the batch measured SG at 1.065. Added 3.5 lbs of sugar which should have brought it up to 1.09 It only brought it to 1.088. I added another 1.3 lbs of sugar and measured at 1.092. (that is where I was looking to be) I did disolve the sugar in almost boiling water so that should not have been an isue.
Last night I was going to add yeast, I rechecked sg and it was at 1.112 (16% alc). Why would this have gone up that high.
The jelly has 8 grams sugar per tbs. Total sugar for all 18 lbs is 3240 grams or 7.14 lbs. I added 4.8 lbs for a total of 11.94 lbs. That amount of sugar should give an sg of 1.079. What am I doing wrong? My hydrometer reads 1.00 in water so it appears to be accurate.
Thanks
Scott
I am making a six gallon batch.
Using 18 lbs of Concord grape jelly.
Tuesday night I mixed up the batch measured SG at 1.065. Added 3.5 lbs of sugar which should have brought it up to 1.09 It only brought it to 1.088. I added another 1.3 lbs of sugar and measured at 1.092. (that is where I was looking to be) I did disolve the sugar in almost boiling water so that should not have been an isue.
Last night I was going to add yeast, I rechecked sg and it was at 1.112 (16% alc). Why would this have gone up that high.
The jelly has 8 grams sugar per tbs. Total sugar for all 18 lbs is 3240 grams or 7.14 lbs. I added 4.8 lbs for a total of 11.94 lbs. That amount of sugar should give an sg of 1.079. What am I doing wrong? My hydrometer reads 1.00 in water so it appears to be accurate.
Thanks
Scott
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