keith_b
Member
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 October 24 and added a dissolved sugar and water solution to the grape juice to bring the SG up from a 1.08 (straight juice) to 1.095 with the sugar added.
This took around 6 cups of sugar for the 1.5 gallons of wine juice.
I used Lalvin-K1-V1116 yeast and the batch was bubbling happily a few hours later. Today, only 10 days later the air lock has stopped bubbling and the SG is down to 0.994.
The wine taste OK. Pretty dry but looks and taste pretty good.
I was surprised that the fermentation finished this quickly or appears to have finished and the SG looks pretty good at 0.994.
My question is, "Is that it?" is the wine finished fermenting?
Should I wait another week at least before bottling or is there something else I am missing and should do?
As I mentioned earlier this is my first attempt at making wine and I am a little spooked that it appears to have gone so well and so quickly. Am I missing something here?
Any thoughts and comments would be much appreciated.
Keith
Henderson, Texas
I started this batch on October 24 and added a dissolved sugar and water solution to the grape juice to bring the SG up from a 1.08 (straight juice) to 1.095 with the sugar added.
This took around 6 cups of sugar for the 1.5 gallons of wine juice.
I used Lalvin-K1-V1116 yeast and the batch was bubbling happily a few hours later. Today, only 10 days later the air lock has stopped bubbling and the SG is down to 0.994.
The wine taste OK. Pretty dry but looks and taste pretty good.
I was surprised that the fermentation finished this quickly or appears to have finished and the SG looks pretty good at 0.994.
My question is, "Is that it?" is the wine finished fermenting?
Should I wait another week at least before bottling or is there something else I am missing and should do?
As I mentioned earlier this is my first attempt at making wine and I am a little spooked that it appears to have gone so well and so quickly. Am I missing something here?
Any thoughts and comments would be much appreciated.
Keith
Henderson, Texas