Thank you for that. It certainly did confuse me I'm glad I was right to question it though and I'm glad there is such a great community on here to help people like me hahaha.
I am at work so I asked my wife to check the hydrometer in water, the hydrometer seems fine.
I've marked where the reading was when I took it for the wine
You're probably right and I've read it wrong let me know if I'm right or wrong thank you.
Could make for a very funny thread.
0.90 for sure like I said in my post I checked quite a few times.
I completely understand the scepticism.
But as bracconiere suggests I will check on a refractometer
Hey thank you for the reply I'm still a little surprised to be honest. should be fun to drink it at least but probably with a mixer.
I assume it is something foreign perhaps an infection and not just the yeast I added which has made it possible for the alcohol to get so high?
For me it...
I recently brewed a batch of Strawberry Wine. I was hoping to end up with a nice dessert wine flavor. OG 1.08
I knew it hadn't turn out as I had hoped when my FG reading was 0.90. Somehow it became very dry and had a very strong alcohol flavor to it.
I had let it ferment for 4 months (I've...
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Thank you for the tips. In the end I went with two separate 5 gallon recipes it taste time I will be sure to post back on here. :) thank you all for your help. Apple wine next. :)
Hey people. I previously made meads and recently made some sima which is a super simple recipe and got me relatively drunk as I hiked up the sugar measurement.
Since then I have been looking at other recipes for ciders some are a bit ingredient heavy and apples are expensive so I'm going with...
Hey people. I recrntly made some sima which is a super simple recipe and got me relatively drunk as I hiked up the sugar measurement.
Since then I have been looking at other recipes for ciders and wines and they are all a bit ingredient heavy or out of my extremely limited budget.
I was...