backsweetening

I just bottled some Petite Pearl, Foch and Marquette wines. I started Petite Pearl in September of 2020, Foch and Marquette in September of 2021. Added sugar to taste before bottling and mixed it really well with a whip in my drill. I did not add anything to prevent re-fermentation because of...

@BigDaveK Per our discussion on another thread, I took 4 cups of frozen peaches (not peeled, but I think I had added Fruit Fresh aka citric acid when I froze them), thawed them for an hour or two, then put them in a pan with 2 cups sugar, on low heat. I didn't add any water. I stirred until...

Hello, everybody 👋 I've got a blackberry port in bulk aging, fortified (brandy + Everclear) and backsweetened (invert syrup + frozen fruit 'f-pack') 1 month ago, <2 months since pitching. I under-shot the sweetness, and added no acid, with the intention of doing a further adjustment after the...

A wine making colleague asked if he needed to add more Sorbate to his wine if he added it at the time of bottling, but decide after a year of aging and retasting, he wanted to add more sugar. I told him no because I did not think Sorbate was consumed in the rendering yeast unable to multiply or...

So this is my first batch, and I am learning as I go. I’ve already added potassium metabisulphite, potassium sorbate, kielsol, and chitosan. Starting SG was 1.05 ending was 0.995 I’ve been tasting my wine as I go, and it just seems very vinegary to me. I just took a sample and backsweetened...

Last night I backsweetened two 1-gallon batches of mead using local wildflower honey. The honey was filtered and appeared very clear in the jar. The mead was also crystal clear at that point, as I had put some kieselsol in it previously. However, after mixing 1/2lb honey in, the mead became...

Got a gallon of banana thats cleared up rather nicely but all I tast is alcohol no fruity flavors...i pulled a 2 cup sample to sweeten an test had a simple syrup made with equal parts sugar an water added it 1/2oz at a time 2oz it was almost there an 2 1/2 was perfectly sweet.....2cups of wine...

I would still consider myself a beginner although I have made a few batches but wanted to try a few new things that I had some questions about. Currently for Christmas presents I have 4 2-gallon batches of fruit wine that I made from frozen constraint ( I have only done fresh fruit so this was...

Last year I made the WinExpert Chocolate Raspberry Dessert Wine per the instructions, and bottled a year ago today. It comes with an f-pack, which I added after adding the potassium sorbate and k-meta. The final SG after adding the f-pack was 1.016, and I don't find it sweet enough for a...

Greetings winemakers. Like a lot of users around I am interested in what are some of the options and your experience with backsweetening. From what I read around the forum sugar seems to be the most common used ingredient. Did anyone try fresh grapes juice i.e. the original juice, must obtained...

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