How to calculate sugar/water quantities, to hit my target gravity.

[domsablos]

Can anyone point me in the direction of a calculator for making wine/mead etc? i've been reading recipies but am struggling with working out the math?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

https://brewhaus.com/downloads/alcohol-yield-from-sugar.html

 

[domsablos]

Thankyou, that is usefull... say i have 4l of must, at 1.064, how do i figure out how much water/sugar i need to make it brew dry?

 

[Twostage]

Not sure I understand the question. Generally speaking if you add a wine yeast to a must it will naturally ferment it dry unless you stop it or not all of the sugar is fermentable.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

As 2 Stage says if you let the wine ferment to dry (.990) you will end up with the %ABV below.

The bottom screen shot is for supermarket juice wine which we start using a total of 1100g of sugar in a standard demijohn - Supermarket Juice Wine How To guide and Recipes.

 

[RichardM]

If you want a certain O.G. in order to finish with a certain ABV, then this calculator will help you work out how much sugar to add to your must
https://www.brewersfriend.com/chaptalization-calculator/