On Mar 6, 12:17*pm, Jeff > wrote:
> On Mar 6, 11:23 am, wrote:
>
> > I think I killed my wine. *I did five gallons of merlot using
> > concentrate. * My starting sg was1.080. *After I racked, there was
> > about 1/2 gallon headspace. *I top it off with 2 quarts of grape juice
> > and now my sg reading is 1.0. I added 5 crushed campden tabs. *With
> > this reading does this mean 0 alcohol content or can I save it?
>
> You may be missing a digit, but if you went from 1.080 to 1.0
> (assuming 1.000) then your ABV should be around 10.5%. Still assuming
> you meant 1.000, then your ABV would be even higher than that since
> you topped off with grape juice and then took the reading. I'm
> guessing your reading before the addition was 0.990 with a .5 gallon
> addition of 1.080 juice to bring it to 1.000 gravity in the end. That
> would mean that before the addition, you were at 11.8%ABV.
>
> --Jeff

what kind of pump did you go with? I was thinking about this one:
http://morewinemaking.com/view_product/17305/103271
I'd love to hear someone's thoughts.