Sugar notes

[ThePlantGuy978]

Here is some interesting info that I copied and pasted from another wine forum. It might be helpfull to some. I copied and pasted it to my "wine Making Cheat Sheet".

SUGAR NOTES

2 oz. (4 TBSP) sugar raises 1 gallon's s.g. by .005
1 cup sugar raises 1 gallon's s.g. by .020
5 cups raises 5 gallons' s.g. by .020
4# sugar = 9.44 cups
1# sugar = 2.36 cups
5# sugar = 11.8 cups
10# sugar = 23.6 cups

If wine is at 1.000 s.g., 8 TBSP (half cup) sugar per gallon should taste sweet (to me)

1# sugar in 5 gallons liquid will raise Potential Alcohol 1%

Sweetness:
1# sugar = 3 cups corn sugar
4# sugar = 5# honey
3# sugar = 5# raisins
1# sugar = 20 oz. grape concentrate

Taste Testing, Sweetening:
1/4 tsp. to 4 oz. wine = 1.5 cups sugar to 5 gallons wine

1 gallon water to 1.095 takes 2#2oz. Sugar
5 gallons water to 1.095 takes 10#10oz. Sugar

Sweetening with reserved juice:
1 Qt. reserved juice, frozen to 5 gallons wine (adjust accordingly)

Conversion Tables:
Liquid:

1 TBSP = 3 tsp
16 TBSP = 1 cup
1 cup = 8 liquid oz.'s
1 pint = 16 liquid oz.'s
1 Quart = 4 cups = 32 oz. = .95 litres
1 Gallon = 128 liquid oz. = 3.79 litres
1 Imperial Gallon = 153.6 liquid oz.
5 gallons = 640 liquid oz. = 18.95 litres

WEIGHT, US to Metric:
.25 oz. = 7 grams
1 oz. = 28 grams
.25# = 113 grams
1# = 454 grams
2#3.25 oz. (2.2#) = 1000 grams = 1 Kilogram

Using BRIX, % Sugar:
1 cup sugar raises 5 gallons liquid aproximately 1 degree Brix

STEVIA for Sweetening a Finished Wine
I've never tried this yet but will this season. Stevia is a plant extract, all natural, that's hundreds times sweeter than sugar and has zero calories. I've chewed on the leaves of the stevia plant, amazing, but never bought the powder.
1/3 tsp. = 1 cup sugar Amazing hu!

Biolees will add the perception of sweetness without adding fermentable sugars. (Haven't tried this yet, but Bzac said it so it must be true; he knows his stuff!)

 

[Rocky]

PlantGuy, thanks for the post. That is a lot of useful information.