So the last couple weeks in my wine making world I have endured many obstacles...so..
"If at first you don’t succeed, try try again. Then quit. No sense being a damn fool about it."
Ok, no just kidding I am not quitting but I will give you all an update on what has happened.
I have only encountered a few problems and only one of them was my carelessness, plain and simple.
I am and have been making 5 gallons of wine. All day every day in my head I have repeated 5 gallons, 5 gallons, 5 gallons. So of course when it came time to purchase another carboy, which is the big glass container that hold the wine,I purchased a 6 gallon. Idiot me.
AND not even that, I didn't realize that I had too big of a container until I started transferring the previous wine into the new carboy.
After all was said and done I had to siphon the FIVE gallons of wine back into the FIVE gallon carboy. And return the SIX gallon one for a FIVE gallon one. Waste of time...
-Look at the difference!!-
OK, now that I have gotten over that my other issue I was and currently am still having is that my wine seems to be stuck in fermentation. It's mind boggling because it does not happen very often. I have taken all the appropriate steps to kick its ass into gear so hopefully I can get the process back on track.
After taking my readings I noticed it must be stuck because I was only getting about a 7% alcohol content in my wine and it was much too sweet for my taste.
Now I need to restart the yeast fermentation process over and cross my fingers that all goes as planned!
-Cheers!
