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David C Breeden
 
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frederick ploegman ) wrote:
>Odd question I suppose - but - If you folks don't know empirically where
>a wine should end up when it goes dry (your end SG reading), how in
>the world to you know if your wine actually went dry or whether it got
>stuck and thus represents a problem that has to be dealt with ??



Hi,

By using clinitest tabs to see if the wine is dry, rather than a
hydrometer. You can't (maybe you could with a fair amount of math,
but I doubt it) use a hydrometer to see if a wine has sugar in it.
You have to do it chemically, and clinitest tabs are the easiest
way.

Dave
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