Whispermatthes
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I have two peach trees in my backyard and had a good sized harvest this year of about four boxes though the peaches were small. I cut and peeled them and put some in the freezer and made a four gallon batch of wine with about ten pounds of fruit.
I sweetened with sugar to an SG of 1.095 and used the cuvée yeast from the wine store downtown, honestly I'm not even sure about this I bought a variety when I picked cherries and used them all during the summer. Anyway at about six weeks the fermentation had slowed some so I added another packet of yeast. I had a batch of cherry wine going at the same time in the same room and on the same day all the air locks dropped.
So I took a sample of the peach and shared it with my husband, he's not a big wine drinker but I needed a second opinion on the taste which I thought to be quite dry. He said it tasted like alka seltzer.
So I decided to fortify it and happened to have a bottle of Hiram Walker whipped cream, which I figured would make a nice peaches and cream flavor. I added a total of 3 fifths to my four gallons of wine and bottled 20 bottles.
Here is my question for the more advanced winemakers; how do I find the new alcohol content? I have a hydrometer and my final reading on it before I fortified was 0.998.
I sweetened with sugar to an SG of 1.095 and used the cuvée yeast from the wine store downtown, honestly I'm not even sure about this I bought a variety when I picked cherries and used them all during the summer. Anyway at about six weeks the fermentation had slowed some so I added another packet of yeast. I had a batch of cherry wine going at the same time in the same room and on the same day all the air locks dropped.
So I took a sample of the peach and shared it with my husband, he's not a big wine drinker but I needed a second opinion on the taste which I thought to be quite dry. He said it tasted like alka seltzer.

Here is my question for the more advanced winemakers; how do I find the new alcohol content? I have a hydrometer and my final reading on it before I fortified was 0.998.