another indiana wine maker

BMILLER · Feb 21, 2011

First post;
Just found a lot of answers to my questions on this site so I figured I would join and learn even more

I have consumed my first 6 gallon batch which was a kit from vintners reserve - a spanish tempranillo... I love this wine and it turned out perfect. I have another vintners reserve chianti in the secondary now along with 5 gallon of welches. The welches has slowed down in the secondary considerably (almost stalled) and the SG is only 1.00 after starting at 1.10... kind of worried (maybe too much sugar) oh well, I guess it'll just be sweet if it doesn't come down. This has made me realize the importance of a log book... ugh.

jtstar · Feb 21, 2011

Do you have this Welches in the primary yet or in the secondary now with an air lock on it

jtstar · Feb 21, 2011

You can still make another starter with some of the juice and more yeast to get it started fermenting again

BMILLER · Feb 21, 2011

yes, it is in the secondary airlocked... it went crazy for about 5 days and now its down to about 2 bubbles per minute on the airlock with a SG of 1.00. I kind of expected it to get down to .990 but then thought maybe there was too much sugar and so it wont ever get that low. I just used a abv calculator from one of the stickys and I never knew temperature effected the readings so much :< it was at 76 deg when I got my OG of 1.1 and is 65 now with my final reading of 1.00... so it says 13.5%! I used 71B-1122 (good till 14%). I think maybe its ok! I'll give it another week and then stabalize and clear. Great info on here.