Watermelon ordeal

[Rickster57]

So, I have this 6 gallon batch of watermelon aging in the carboy. It is clear, tastes pretty good, but is super sweet. The day I was mixing the must, I broke my hydrometer and didn’t get a SG reading. I live in a rural area so there was no chance I could run out and buy a new one, so I dumped all the sugar I had in there (16 lbs) and let er rip. Fermentation was fast and furious! Now there is no more fermentation going on, the SG is 1.014. I have 2 vinometers, one reads 14% abv and the other reads 22%abv. I did dilute the sample with distilled water and multiply x2. Yeast was Lalvin EC-1118.
Thinking of blending it with a dry wine or something like that. Is the alcohol too high to try to restart a fermentation? What would you do?

 

[hounddawg]

Frist, I too live very rural, and years ago i learned to keep at least 5 hydrometers, just for that reason, I have to buy mine online,
I actually broke 2 in one sitting, so my number since been 5 of em.
Second, what yeast did you use?
now for your help hey @Rice_Guy
Good luck,
so you FSG is 1.014 and it's to sweet?
my standard FSG for my country wines is FSG 1.040
but i run my ABV% way up there, and i use 4-5 times or more fruit than is called for, depending on the fruit, banana i use 12 lbs to gallon apple juice, and a lot of golden raisins,
I've never made watermelon, i love watermelons,for eating, but i live where some of the sweetest melons grow form porta Ar, to cave city Arkansas. so good luck again,
Dawg
Forgive me @Rice_Guy ...

 

[cmason1957]

Vinometers are notoriously wrong. Particularly in sweet wines. You can almost give up on restarting fermentation.

 

[ChuckD]

I would make a lower alcohol dry watermelon wine and blend them post-fermentation to reach the level of sweetness you desire. As @hounddawg said, go high on the fruit.