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I measured the SG again today and it hasn't moved at all from the 0.998. The bubbles are coming through about every 25-30 minutes now and the taste isn't sweet to me, it's just the SG that seems completely wrong. I was thinking maybe I should just move on to the next step and see what happens -...

Thanks all for your advice. It's getting really slow on the bubbles now (about 20 minutes or so between) so I will test again later today or tomorrow.

I decided to leave a little longer as it is still bubbling slowly and I've got the temperature back up to 22 degrees. Yesterday I measured the SG again and has dropped slightly to 0.998 but still nowwhere near the 0.990 it should be. I tried a taste test and it didn't taste particularly sweet to...

Hi, It's the 6 bottle kit. However I transferred a small amount into a separate tube that came with the hydrometer so it was floating freely and I could read it accurately. Also the difference between the 1.000 line and the 0.990 line is about half a cm so I'm pretty sure the reading I got...

Thanks for your reply. It was bubbling away quite regularly then slowed right down, and by day 16 it seemed to have stopped but at that point I was just about to go away. I checked with my local brew shop and they said it would be fine (and in fact preferable) to leave it until I got back. It...

Hi, This is my first time making wine and I'm 99% sure my batch has stopped fermenting (no bubbles are going through the airlock) and I should be adding the stabiliser and finings now. However I checked the specific gravity of the batch and it is showing as 1.000, and the instructions for my...