18% abv?

[torilen]

I have a white grape cherry wine going right now. I used Lalvin ec-1118 for the yeast, and have fed it a cup of sugar already (about 4 days in). If I keep feeding it until it doesn't ferment anymore, does that mean that it has reached the tolerance of the yeast and it is at 18% ABV?

I don't have a hydrometer yet, so I can't check it myself (hopefully I'll be getting one next month).

I was just curious. Is it possible that it wouldn't hit the full tolerance...maybe only get to 15% or 16%?


Thanks.

 

[poptarts]

it totally depends on so many conditions, you can easy go way over the tolerance listed on yeast, you can also have them crap out way before that point too.