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Fermentation complete! Gravity well below 1.000. The wine is now very dry, one extreme to the other!! Thanks for everyone's comments and help

Wow, the wine is still fermenting! I have bought a gravity meter. What sort of gravity should I be expecting before bottling?

Tony.....Thanks for the advice. I followed your instructions using bread yeast and some yeast nutrient etc. and eventually after leaving it by the radiator the yeast has gone crazy!!! By the way when it's finished do I need to put some more powder in to kill the yeast and then finings again? I...

I didn't take a hydrometer reading....maybe i'll invest. The kit said to leave it for 7 days which I did. Next time I will leave it longer. Is there anything I can do with this wine?

I have tried to make a rose from a WILKINSON kit and followed the instructions to the letter. It did instruct me to use 3.5kg of sugar for 23 litres of wine, which thought was excessive. After a couple of weeks I bottled it this evening and tried it and it is extremely sweet. Is this to be...

Another question i'm afraid......... I have just received my next project in the post, a 16L Elderberry sparkling wine set but was a little disappointed to see the end product would be only about 4% alcohol.....i'm no alcoholic but that's a bit weak for wine isn't it? (i was thinking of...

Thanks old bloke, I think i might drink it like it is.....it is drinkable in this state isn't it?????? I tested the gravity and it is at about 1.017, does that mean anything to you? Kieron PS. i take it that stabiliser kills the yeast at the end of the process???? Why would you want to do...

Hi Gayle and Moley, I hope you can recall my predicament about not adding sugar? I have left the wine with the added sugar for another week and it appeared to be happily fermenting away until yesterday so i added the stabiliser and then the finings a day later. It is pretty clear, but not...

And i didn't measure the gravity.....the kit cost 20p by the way so i'm not too bothered if this goes wrong i'll try again. Any recommendations for an easy cheap starter wine kit? Kieron

Thanks Gayle and Moley, The kit definately didn't come with sugar so i have made up a boiled water and sugar mix with approx 250g of sugar (6 bottle kit) and added that and it appears to be fermenting again....how long should i leave this?? (Currently bubbles every 4 or 5 seconds.) Also having...

Hi all, I'm brand new to this game and am enjoying the basic wine making. I got what i thought was an incredible bargain from Wilkinsons who charged me next to nothing for an end of line Chardonnay kit.........no instructions!!!! I feel a bit stupid now.......i have had the demijohn fermenting...