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Ok so essentially topping off with wine or juice would be like back sweetening? Just wine would not lower the alcohol content that much. And my wine is about 5 days old on primary fermentation

Our ciders have usually turned out pretty good. But this will be the first time we have been very patient with it lol

As far as the head space in the carboy would I just top off with more juice and leave as is or top off with more juice and do a secondary ferment?

Lol sorry about that I'm on a phone

Hey sour grapes what is dragons blood? And do you have a recipe?

This is my collection of wines in the making, the one on top right is a practice run of a pumpkin cider after our first racking, top left is a small batch, honey crisp apple cider and big one on the bottom is concord grape juice gonna make it a sweet red. And tomorrow we will be starting a large...

Here is a picture of my wine as of right now

Oh and also thank everyone for their help and the wine has started fermenting finally

Turock, that last paragraph makes a lot of sense to me because we have made several batches of wine but all on the small scale and have never used nutrient our wines have very often smelled like sulfur (h2s) and we weren't very sure why, but we would just rack it alot and let the sulfur settle...

So, my wife and I have just started our first large batch of wine, we do not have a specific gravity hydrometer so we have none of those readings. But we used 4 gallons of Newmans own grape juice and about 4 lbs of sugar and one packet of cote De blanc wine yeast from red star. It's been about...

And yeah it was the juice in a bottle not the frozen grape juice

Sorry I did forget to mention we do sanitize I do use star San sanitizer, and usually as far as yeast goes we use red star champagne yeast but we're out at this time I do have some turbo yeast but my wife while setting it up forgot about that and just used bread yeast lol. And as far as all the...

Hey all I have recently made a half gallon of wine, I frequently make wine using store bought juices which usually turn out good. This particular time we made wine in a half gallon clear growler using a half gallon of Welches concord grape juice one packet of bread yeast and about 2 cups of...