Too much concentrate ?

[Rob Johnston]

Hi , being fairly new to making wine, the other day I made some orange and pineapple wine, however I could not find any normal WGJ so I had to buy some concentrate from wilkinsons, whilst making my wine it said to put 185g of WGJ in the mix, this I did then suddenly realised it was concentrate, anyway all seemed to be going well until the wine frothed up and out of the bung and airlock. So I cleaned everything up emptied some of the wine out and left it. It is now bubbling constantly at a very fast rate, is there anything I can do or will it slow down eventually and just leave me with very strong wine.
Cheers.

 

[Papa G]

Hi, welcome to the forum : .
It will be fine, just let it finish fermenting.
If it tastes a little strong at bottling you can water it down a little (uses boiled and cooled water), but you my like it as it is.

 

[oldbloke]

Let's assume this stuff is about the same as Ritchie's red grape concentrate.
500ml of that makes 6 bottles.
You've used a bit more than a third of 500ml, so you have a little over 2 bottles worth of grape, plus your other stuff.
Sounds about right to me!
The escape through the airlock is probably just the usual initial overfilling of the vessel - I still do it sometimes after 3 years in this game. It takes experience to know how much space you need to leave for the first few days, and how soon you can safely top-up

 

[Rob Johnston]

Cheers fellas thanks for the help