Recent content by jestvick

Hello everyone just saw this post about brix. I am new to the wine making. I have a few vines that have really produced lots of grapes. When I check the brix before fermentation and it was 10, and that seems low from what I have read. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

well the color is brownish to tan, taste a bit champagne like at first then sourish. I added 3 lbs of sugar in the beginning to 4.5 gal of fresh grape juice, in an glass car boy and an air lock. when it stopped bubbling, I transfered the juice, and the lees was super hard like coral. It...

hello all i am new at this site.. hope i am doing this right. just trying to figure out if my juice has gone bad? it started out at 1.032 before adding yeast and sugar. after adding the yeast and sugar, it fermented for about one week then it stopped. i transferred the juice to a new...