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Thanks so much, and I will keep you posted! You've been a great help in my new endeavor. Starbuck

Well, it was 1.060 to start, before adding any sugar. I added three cups the first time around, then 5 days later added the 4 cups I mentioned in the post. Given the 1.067 figure you calculated, that would still sound like around 9% total alcohol content, right? I haven't opened the carboys up...

Hi Yooper, The second adding of sugar was 4 cups, just granulated sugar boiled into a syrup and then cooled. The batch started out in its first fermentation, when I was adding the sugar, at 20 gallons (then pressed into 13 gallons, and after racking off the first sediment, is 10 gallons). I...

Thanks for the help, Yooperbrew. I used a red wine yeast, but now I can't remember the specific name of it. (Bought it at the homebrew store.) As far as ABV, I made a rough guess after watching the SG drop and realizing it had not started out high enough to make much alcohol (first reading was...

Hey, Brewtopia! I love the little "Nehru" shirt. Do you still have that? Thanks for sending me to this site. I'd post some photos, but I don't have that option on my account. Plus, you'd just find out I'm the same dork I always was! (Or, you'd find out I was always the same dork I am now?)...

Hello, I just finished the first racking of my wine. Back in the beginning when I was trying to get the specific gravity up, I was adding so much sugar that I began to think I was going to ruin something, so I backed off. I think my alcohol content has ended up to be something like 10%, which I...

Thanks so much for the tips. I will go ahead and rack it and wait a while longer, then try the pectic enzyme. I didn't use any pectic anything in the first fermentation. I haven't heard of sparkelloid, but I will keep that in mind in case the other tactics don't work. Cheers!

Hi, I am making wine for the first time with grapes from my backyard. It is currently in carboys (two 5-gallon, one 3-gallon), has been there for about 9 days, and I haven't done any racking yet. Two of the carboys have cleared and settled, and one of them is still completely cloudy, so much so...