Two days into primary and SG is 1.000?

[hdsae60]

It's Muscadine must and I think it needs more sugar, and berries. Can I just smash and add some with sugar?

 

[StartingLateAt49yo]

I would wait until bottling time to add sugar. The wine must be stable. Add potassium sorbate also to prevent re-fermentation.

unfermented grape juice works best when the juice used to sweeten the wine has come from the same juice that was fermented to make the wine. This results in coherent flavor. If you know you want to make a sweet wine at the start, set aside some of the grape juice for sweetening before you add yeast.

Port uses a more complicated approach during fermentation by adding high alcohol liquor 16%ish where yeast can't tolerate it.

 

[hdsae60]

Well I messed up. The starting SG was 1.010

 

[GreginND]

Yes. I would calculate how much sugar you would have needed to get the original up to about 1.090 and add it. Your alcohol will be too low now with that starting sg.

 

[hdsae60]

I'm slowly adding sugar.

 

[hdsae60]

I used all the sugar in the house and got it to 1.078. Thanks for the help!

 

[garymc]

Sometimes you learn by having an adventure.