stronger wine

[muggy]

hi all ive just bottled rhubarb wine, blackberry wine, apple and rhubarb wine and banana wine. the first 3 came up at around 12% on my vinometer as did the banana. on tasting i think the banana needs to have more of a kick. is it just a case of just adding more sugar at the start or is it the yeast . look forward gto understand more. cheers muggy

 

[muggy]

think id like the banana to be around 14%

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I am not sure how adding a couple of %ABV will make it "taste" like it has more kick but basically yes more sugar will give you more %ABV.

I like the vinometer and have never seen one before.




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[Vinotinto]

I wonder how accurate they are?

 

[engineer]

Another option would be to add grape juice enricher to increase the abv and add vinocity


http://www.tesco.com/direct/youngs-...enricher-245-grams/213-2262.prd?source=others

 

[Tanzanite]

the amount of sugar you add makes abv but you also need a Yeast capable of attaining higher abv like a dessert or champagne yeast, once the maximum abv has been attained that the yeast can cope with, the alcohol then kills the yeast leaving the residual sugar thus you have either sweet med or dry wine

 

[muggy]

apparently they are bang on. if in a temperature of 20degrees as which they are calibrated at. its what the professionals use

 

[muggy]

can you give me a yeast capable of higher abv as ive only got youngs for every thing

 

[Vinotinto]

apparently they are bang on. if in a temperature of 20degrees as which they are calibrated at. its what the professionals use

No experience of them but everything I am reading suggests otherwise. Readings with red wine especially are somewhat inaccurate. :whistle:

 

[Tau]

can you give me a yeast capable of higher abv as ive only got youngs for every thing

There's a sticky here on a few yeasts, hopefully a few other people can add their experiences with different yeasts than mentioned.

http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=67254

 

[Roddy]

can you give me a yeast capable of higher abv as ive only got youngs for every thing

I've had 14-14.5% with youngs super wine yeast compound 😀 (assuming that's the one you use) ?

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[tonyhibbett]

Compared with my calculations based on hydrometer readings, my vinometer gives a reading about 2% abv lower. Also pretty useless with anything other than a dry wine.

 

[VW911]

I wonder how accurate they are?

They're rubbish!
May as well pluck a figure out of the air...