Apple Wine Low Final s.g.

[gmb66]

I made a batch of apple wine from concentrate and after 2nd fermentation I have found that the s.g. is 0.985. The lowest s.g. I see in most posts is 0.90. Is this too low and why do you think this happened?

I tasted the wine and it tastes like it has a lot of co2 in it, and it definitely has alcohol. At my calculations about 14.5% at this s.g. So I'm going to rack it and de-gas today, let it sit for a few weeks then back sweeten and bottle.
Just worried about why the s.g. is so low. Or is it?

Thanks for any help ,
Gary

 

[winemaker_3352]

Welcome aboard!!

i think you mean .990 - not sure how you are getting .985 - does you hydrometer read that low??

Mine goes to .990..

 

[gmb66]

Right .990 -
Yes my scale goes down to .982

 

[gmb66]

Well I racked it into an extra primary bucket and re tested and it was 0.990. So maybe using the thief I got a different reading. Did some searching and read some similar posts so from now own I'll get a ballpark from the thief and then re-check at racking.
Gary