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    Primary fermentation length

    Just took another SG, at 1025.
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    Primary fermentation length

    Not the best deal, 1.99 was cheapest last week. I have 10lbs in the freezer so just need to fill that out a bit more. This is sort of a hobby my mom and I our sharing, and she really wanted to make wine out of cherries. In the future I am hoping to make wine mostly from what my friends and...
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    Primary fermentation length

    Ah, i added pectic enzyme after the yeast. Doh. Not sure what you mean by what's next. As far as this batch goes, will simply strain out the must, transfer to secondary and wait for some clearing and rack it. I will be starting another batch soon, most likely from cherries since those are...
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    Primary fermentation length

    I'll try to post my notes from work tomorrow. Was this much else I should of added? Pretty sure that was about it! I felt like 10lbs of sugar was too much, so i actually mixed 5lbs in with a gallon or two of boiling water. Added that to the fruit and filled up to 5g and took an SG reading...
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    Primary fermentation length

    It was from fruit. I took detailed notes of everything we did, but I took them to work to show a guy who use to brew beer and left it there. Here is the basic recipe 16lbs of Mango(Edward, Glenn and Tommy Atkins cultivar) 2lbs of grapes(red, can't remember cultivar) 10lbs of cane sugar...
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    Primary fermentation length

    Thanks for the quick responses! Current SG is at 1035. Temp is 77.9F My primary is a 5 gallon food grade bucket with a lid and airlock. As I mentioned, I do stir it once(sometimes twice actually) a day. Not sure where i got the don't take SG readings during primary fermentation. I...
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    Primary fermentation length

    Hello, I recently started my first ever batch of wine. It is a mango wine and i somewhat followed some recipes I found online. It's now day 13 since I put everything into the primary and added the yeast and my airlock is still spitting out bubbles about every 6-8seconds. Every recipe i...
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