Cellar Craft Anothe Grape Pack Question

[A1190w]

I have done the Amerone, Old vine Zinfandel, Carmenere, and now the Rosso Fortissimo Kits all with the Grape Packs. The question I have is how do you calculate Alchohol Content?


I start out with Juice that measures SG 1.084 +/- then after massaging that Grape pack, It climbs to any where from 1.092 in the Ameroneto 1.106 as in the Rosso Fortissimo. There still is a lot of sugar in that pack though that the Hydrometer is not seeing. I know from experience that the pack will give all its sugars up after Primary fermentationis over.


Do you use the Vinometer for final ABVmeasurement or does someone have a magic formula someplace that they use to figure out how much more sugar comes out of that Packto get the final ABV.



Edited by: A1190w

 

[smokegrub]

The Amarone kit instructions indicate an approximate final ABV--that is what I use.

 

[Wade E]

they all typically end up right in the 14.5% range give or take a 1/2%.