mmadmikes1
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I have watch hundreds of times now when new winemakers get this wrong and cause them selves problems. I did it to.
You need a hydrometer to check wine, your eyes are not going to do the trick. When the SG is stable for 3 days, it is finished.Just because the kit instruction say 5 days or list SG between .0998 and 0994 doesn't always mean at .0994 you are finished. Wine is not that exact.
Being said, I haven't needed to check SG to tell is wine if finished in a long time because I wait months before I bottle or backsweetin(in do this rarely).
Backsweetin a wine that is not finished will feed the yeast and away it wll go weather you added K-Meta or not. Why wont wine clear?, Wine is gassy, Corks are coming out of bottles, there is stuff on bottom of bottles are all questions that are asked and caused by incomplete fermenting. I will add corks flying across the room and wine squirting all over is also a good possibility.
If you are new trust the old wine makers when they say PATIENCE. They have all learn for experience also know as the hard way
You need a hydrometer to check wine, your eyes are not going to do the trick. When the SG is stable for 3 days, it is finished.Just because the kit instruction say 5 days or list SG between .0998 and 0994 doesn't always mean at .0994 you are finished. Wine is not that exact.
Being said, I haven't needed to check SG to tell is wine if finished in a long time because I wait months before I bottle or backsweetin(in do this rarely).
Backsweetin a wine that is not finished will feed the yeast and away it wll go weather you added K-Meta or not. Why wont wine clear?, Wine is gassy, Corks are coming out of bottles, there is stuff on bottom of bottles are all questions that are asked and caused by incomplete fermenting. I will add corks flying across the room and wine squirting all over is also a good possibility.
If you are new trust the old wine makers when they say PATIENCE. They have all learn for experience also know as the hard way