I am 7 days into my first wine making endeavor. I am making muscadine wine from my backyard muscadines. I have research a few recipes and have compared/used two in my process. last tues I started with sg of 1.15, this is when I pitched my yeast.
I placed the lid (airtight) on primary and stirred must twice a day for the first 3 days. then i saw on another recipe to place cheese cloth or towel over top of primary during fermentation and stir twice a day. So at that point I put towel over top.
The recipes say to rack wine once sg reaches 1.030 (other recipe says 1.04). This was supposed to happen in 5-7 days. For the last two days the sg has remained 1.10. Have I messed up or do I need to do something else now or do I just need to be patient?
I placed the lid (airtight) on primary and stirred must twice a day for the first 3 days. then i saw on another recipe to place cheese cloth or towel over top of primary during fermentation and stir twice a day. So at that point I put towel over top.
The recipes say to rack wine once sg reaches 1.030 (other recipe says 1.04). This was supposed to happen in 5-7 days. For the last two days the sg has remained 1.10. Have I messed up or do I need to do something else now or do I just need to be patient?