WineAllDay
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UPDATE: So, last week around this time I set about making some homemade wine. Note, I did not end up keeping 100 gallons in my room, instead only 50 and kept the windows open! So far, 7 days in, I'm still alive!
I also made two "mini" bottles of said wine in clear plastic bottles to get a sense of what's going on in my FDA food-grade buckets. The results as of today are incredible!
Original LD Carlson Company hydrometer Sp. Gr. reading was 1.150 (I did about 3 pounds of sugar per gallon of juice)
Question: The 1.100000 part was in the blue "dessert wine" area and the.150 was in a white area called "reading below meniscus" - what exactly does this mean?
Today's LD Carlson Company hydrometer reading is 1.040 (the .040 is in the orange area titled "beer")
1.150 - 1.040 x 131.25 = That gives an alcohol percentage of 14% of my calculations are correct? Could someone advise?
Did a small taste test, it was great! Def smelled the alcohol!
I also made two "mini" bottles of said wine in clear plastic bottles to get a sense of what's going on in my FDA food-grade buckets. The results as of today are incredible!
Original LD Carlson Company hydrometer Sp. Gr. reading was 1.150 (I did about 3 pounds of sugar per gallon of juice)
Question: The 1.100000 part was in the blue "dessert wine" area and the.150 was in a white area called "reading below meniscus" - what exactly does this mean?
Today's LD Carlson Company hydrometer reading is 1.040 (the .040 is in the orange area titled "beer")
1.150 - 1.040 x 131.25 = That gives an alcohol percentage of 14% of my calculations are correct? Could someone advise?
Did a small taste test, it was great! Def smelled the alcohol!