I recently brewed a batch of Strawberry Wine. I was hoping to end up with a nice dessert wine flavor. OG 1.08
I knew it hadn't turn out as I had hoped when my FG reading was 0.90. Somehow it became very dry and had a very strong alcohol flavor to it.
I had let it ferment for 4 months (I've written the recipe below), somehow I have a reading of 23.6% alcohol.
I have checked and double checked the measurements washed thoroughly my hydrometer and checked for damage. I made the temperature adjustments while taking readings and was shocked to find the same reading over and over.... can it really be 23.6%?
It sure tastes like it is but is 23.6% just not unheard of
4kg strawberrys (slightly mouldy)
2.5 kg sugar
1 lemon
1 cup of black tea
6 liter water
2 table spoons bakers yeast
OG 1.08
Fermentation for 4 months room temp
(21°~28°)
FG 0.90
It could happen. 1.080 down to .90 is possible, and would be around 24%. I have some wine I kept pushing down in FG, and it's about 20%. Dry as the Sahara Desert, too. Kinda makes my mouth pucker when I drink it.
Hey thank you for the reply I'm still a little surprised to be honest. should be fun to drink it at least but probably with a mixer.
I assume it is something foreign perhaps an infection and not just the yeast I added which has made it possible for the alcohol to get so high?
For me it happened purely by accident, how are you managing to push down your FG?
To me, SG 0.90 sounds like an impossible reading for wine. I don't know of any wine yeast that can ferment to 23% ABV. How are you reading your hydrometer? Maybe the reading is actually 0.990.
If your OG was 1.08 then the potential ABV is 11%. There is simply not enough sugar in the wine to ferment higher than 12%. You are right to question the result and ask "Does this really make sense?"
it's a sugar wash, with berry flavoring...but i am surprised baker's yeast would get that high!
do you have a refractometer adamray? i'd be curious what it reads.
0.90 for sure like I said in my post I checked quite a few times.
I completely understand the scepticism.
But as bracconiere suggests I will check on a refractometer
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