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So this is what I got going, 9 days ago I mixed up a batch of strawberry wine with 8lbs of strawberries, 10lbs sugar, lV1118 yeast, added yeast energizer and nutrients and beginning gravity was 1.090. I did not put strawberries in a cloth or anything just threw them in my 6 gal carboy and let it...

The maple peach one I have is sitting at 1.012 and actually taste very good at this point but as far as sweetness its getting dry but we will see how it turns out and after it ages a bit. I'm planning on back sweetening to get preferred flavor. Having fun playing with this wine stuff tho !!

I've got a few batches in the making and have added one with oranges, one with white grapes and oranges and one with cherry and also I did one with peaches. Not so much looking for total sweet syrup favored wine but a way to push some more syrup usage for my maple syrup business.

New to this whole wine making and decided to do a batch of strawberry wine for a request from a buddy. 6 gallon batch with 12 lbs of strawberries that I boiled and 10lbs of sugar. Added my campdon tabs and waited 24 hrs. Pitched my yeast and nothing after 48 hrs. Pitched a second batch of yeast...

I have discovered that 🤣 whoops. Lesson learned and mixed a batch up this morning with same ingredients minus the booster and within 2 hrs it's going crazy !! Think I'm going to just pitch a new batch of yeast and let her do it's thing. Thanks

Yes there is zero action that I can see and I'm new to this but I've got 5 other batches going and have never used the yeast energizer before and this is the only time I've had zero action within 12hrs. That's why I was wondering if it was to much for the yeast to handle. 🤷‍♂️

Yes I mixed it in and nothing yet....I'm trying to be patient and hope it fires up if not I may pitch a new batch of yeast after 48hrs.

Newbie here and rehydrated my yeast with yeast booster, no fermentation after 16 hrs.....did I kill my yeast by mixing the 2 together ?