MostlyHarmless
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I started off some Ribena wine back in early February. It's still fizzing away - I'm getting a bubble very 10 seconds or so through the airlock - so today I decided to check on it.
Hmmmm....
For all it started off like something out of a sodastream, the hyrdometer is still showing 1.080....maybe time to recheck my calculations.
Hmmm....(again)....I think I might have neglected to take into account the fact that the sugar/250ml figure on the side of the bottle is for when it's diluted 1:4 with water, and I think I only diluted 1:3, or maybe even 1:2.5, based on something I'd read online. I might even have been so stupid as to have added a bit of sugar as well...
Re-doing the calculations, and not accounting for the fact that the yeast will be dead from alcohol poisoning before the end, I'm on target for a theoretical ABV of about 30%.
Ooops...I think I'll be splitting this one into 2 DJs and watering it down before it finishes.
Oh well...the experiment that fails is as important as the experiment that succeeds, and all that...
Hmmmm....
For all it started off like something out of a sodastream, the hyrdometer is still showing 1.080....maybe time to recheck my calculations.
Hmmm....(again)....I think I might have neglected to take into account the fact that the sugar/250ml figure on the side of the bottle is for when it's diluted 1:4 with water, and I think I only diluted 1:3, or maybe even 1:2.5, based on something I'd read online. I might even have been so stupid as to have added a bit of sugar as well...
Re-doing the calculations, and not accounting for the fact that the yeast will be dead from alcohol poisoning before the end, I'm on target for a theoretical ABV of about 30%.
Ooops...I think I'll be splitting this one into 2 DJs and watering it down before it finishes.
Oh well...the experiment that fails is as important as the experiment that succeeds, and all that...