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Appreciate it. All this has been helpful info. Thanks guys

I'll get a hydrometer asap. What would the SG read to know if it's stalled?

As for the yeast nutrients it says online it doesn't need much but then I've seen people say that type of yeast needs lots of nutrients so I'm at a stalemate with that. I added as directed on the nutrients directions wonder if I should add one more dosage just for safe keeping

Also it's sitting inside at room temp, so I'm assuming that temp level is good

Well I think I did alright then cause I took initial SG of the mash and never did after adding the sugar and I had heard to rack to the car boy at 1.030 but it was like a 1.010 so I immediately racked it and then after that I broke the hydrometer. Never got any foam though. I will say the...

Cool. Yeah, I have an S lock on it right now. And i just used a sanitizing powder that came with my kit to sanitize the water in the S lock. Seems like the only thing I really gotta worry about is the fermentation stalling.. I would imagine it would have already stalled if it was going too though.

When you say you rack yours every 3 months you mean rack over to the carboy every 3 months or rack over to bottling in 3 months?

Yeah, I'll slow feed the yeast next go around. Fortunately it's still bubbling so it hasn't stalled so far. What's the minimum time it should probably ferment? I'm just wondering if it stops soon then I'm assuming it stalled and I'll have to add yeast and nutrients to kick it back into gear...

Hurry? Not sure how I'm rushing anything.. yeah, I'll probably buy 2 hydrometers so I got a backup. Was gonna let the secondary fermenter sit for 3-4 weeks then rack over to another carboy and let it sit for another 3-4 weeks and maybe rack on over to another carboy one last time and I guess let...

On day 2 of the primary I also added yeast nutrient and yeast energizer. It was a fermenting beast in the primary, constantly bubbling. Once I racked it over to the carboy it started to slow down a little. Pushes a nice blup out every 10 seconds. It definitely smells very alcoholic. I had waited...

Really wish I didn't accidentally break my hydrometer after the first initial SG but it did and then I added the 14lbs of sugar and there was no way to take the SG then. Assuming the calculation between that and finalized SG tells you the abv content from what I've read. I've done my research...

Also, 5 gallons of wine being made

First time wine brewer looking for help. I mashed 38lbs of strawberries and added 1 gallon of water with 14 lbs of sugar, pectic enzyme, campden tablets, tannin and acid blend. Acid was low still so I added to get it to 3.6. Original SG after the strawberry mash itself was 1.020. Used an online...