I posted on a different thread that I bought my pails and left the cap open Saturday.
I had to "interrupt" fermentation because I needed to mix the juice (merlot, grenache and white risling). Juice came with yeast already.
I mixed my juice last night and tonight is when I used the hydrometer.
All 4 mix-juice pails had a reading of 1.040. All in active fermentation process.
I want my wine not really that much dry but a bit sweet. Based on different posts here I see that sweet wine needs a SG of around 1.000~1.010 (give or take)
Is this a bad or good "start" reading? I know I should've checked the SG Saturday.....but I couldn't. My friend said to stop the fermentation process at around that range.
I did read the sticky about the hydrometer but unsure on the alcohol level....
I had to "interrupt" fermentation because I needed to mix the juice (merlot, grenache and white risling). Juice came with yeast already.
I mixed my juice last night and tonight is when I used the hydrometer.
All 4 mix-juice pails had a reading of 1.040. All in active fermentation process.
I want my wine not really that much dry but a bit sweet. Based on different posts here I see that sweet wine needs a SG of around 1.000~1.010 (give or take)
Is this a bad or good "start" reading? I know I should've checked the SG Saturday.....but I couldn't. My friend said to stop the fermentation process at around that range.
I did read the sticky about the hydrometer but unsure on the alcohol level....
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