BernardSmith
Senior Member
The original recipe suggests a hefty 2 lbs of sugar to sweeten 5 gallons of SP. That's more than 6 oz of sugar per gallon and that would likely raise the FG to about 15 points should the SP finish at 1.000. All other things being equal, a wine with an FG of 1.015 is sweet. How sweet do you finish your SP? I prefer mine closer to 1.005 which is about 8 oz of sugar used to backsweeten.