Hi Jerry

I would be very much interested in further info on this or maybe some
links where I can read up on it. TIA

Frederick

"Jerry DeAngelis" > wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> BTW - I have been informed that Clinitest kits are/will be soon
> discontinued. They have been replaced by a strip that changes color at
> the very tip. I believe the new product is called Dynastick. The Bayer
> site will have the exact spelling and info if I am wrong.
>
> I have no data relative to the accuracy of this new strip in wine. I have
> used them a bit to compare with Clinitest tablets, and the results were
> not constant -- some reading matched Clinitest results and some not.
> Neither consistently match laboratory tests for residual sugar in wine
> when we redid samples that had been tested in a large winery laboratory.
>
> Regards
>
> Jerry
>
> "David C Breeden" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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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>> Dave Breeden
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