Recent content by nvp1971

Sorry for the delay in response, in particular since I really and truly appreciated all of the thoughtful and helpful responses! I ended up chucking the first batch. It's a real shame to waste anything but in this case after another month there was zero change and even tasting the product...

I did a bunch of doctoring last night after the agave wine failed to do anything after adding in yeast energizer. I followed some instructions from Jack Keller's wine blog to rescue a stuck wine and started to see some action w/fermentation once again. The real problem here is that through...

Strangely my SG was 1.080 today. It's a far cry and better than the 1.100 I was getting on Friday but yikes -- my OG was 1.080! After the fireworks show that was the fermentation that was supposedly happening on weeks 1-3, I wonder what was really accomplished? Anyhow, after taking SG I...

1.080. Original posting modified to reflect this. That's why I was very surprised when my SG turned out to be 1.1!

The must was definitely fully mixed when the first reading was taken. Temperature was definitely a variance, however. First reading was around 100 degrees F. Second was closer to 70 degrees F.

I'm going to pop the cap and take another SG reading today to see where I am. Then I'm going to buy and add the yeast energizer as necessary.

Entirely possible. Although airlock was dormant, probably 1 every couple of minutes at this point, looked like there was a lot of fizz during racking, so yes, likely a lot of gas. I was hoping to get a variance of readings if this was the case, but surprisingly all 4 were the same: 1.1000.

I saw another recent thread on this forum about an agave wine not behaving. The conditions described in that thread were unlike mine enough that I decided to start a new thread. Hopefully this new thread does not cause undue noise here. I started an agave wine on 2012-02-04. The recipe I...