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Well I pulled the cork on one of the bottles of Welch's Grape Juice wine this evening. Sat on the front porch in 75 degree weather and sipped the first glass as the sun set. So, it isn't great wine but hey, it is drinkable and by golly I made it myself. Sipped a little more and as it got dark...

Thank you. Saves me from having to riff through all the kitchen drawers and cabinets to find my paper work...

Thanks for the reply Justibone. I am trying to maintain some patience but it is almost like Christmas morning and a bunch of unopened presents sitting under the tree... ha... Maybe once I bottle a batch the first time I will not have this burning desire to get a batch bottled. Actually it...

Thanks CampFireWine, I do believe there was a sheet with my hydrometer. I'll see if I can locate it and see what it says for my hydrometer.

November 17, update on Welch's Grape Juice Concentrate Wine: Started on Oct. 24. Today I racked the wine to another carboy and checked the S.G. The S.G. was at 0.992, down slightly from 0.994 back on November 3. Will or could a change in temperature in the house make this much difference in...

Thanks for the advice. I believe I will order out some campden and sorbate. Let it sit for awhile and then add a bit of sugar to it. Guess I had better order out another air lock and bored plug since it sounds like I am going to have this carboy tied up for awhile. Thanks again... Keith

I have two batches of wine fermenting now. My first and second batches ever by the way. One is from some Muscadine grapes I raised this past summer and the second batch is 1.5 gallons from Welch's grape juice. I'll ask about the Welch's grape juice batch first. I started this batch on...