Hello,
Having made a fair number of batches of wine this way, I can tell you that
the alcohol taste will be strong in the beginning, but as time goes by that
will diminish and then you will be able to know what your wine truly tastes
like. Your wine will also clear up over time as well as more sediment drops
to the bottom. Good-luck and welcome.
Darlene
Wisconsin

"BBQ" > wrote in message
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> Here is an update for my two batches.
>
> I actually returned from a short camping outing with my son and his
> grandpa and so did not even look at the stuff yesterday (saturday). We
> went to Enchanted Rock State Natural Area here in Texas. What a great
> trip it was. My son is about 3 years 3 months, and was able to make it
> to the top with little issue. I did carry him down however. Highly
> recommended to anyone. The only minor complaint I have is that the
> Texas heat seems to finally be upon us. Boy it was hot on saturday.
> Thankfully it did cool off at night, and we climbed the rock early
> sunday when it was still fairly cool. Anyway, on to the update
>
> Day 3 (since yeast added) for batch one (White Grape/ Peach) - I
> checked on the two batches when I got home on Sunday at around 12 noon.
> This batch did not have much going on. Just a few patches of bubbles
> on top. I stirred the batch and it did foam up quite a bit. Tonight
> at about 9pm I checked it again, and there were just a few bubble
> patches on top. So, I decided to take an SG reading with my
> hydrometer. Now, this thing is not all that acurate, but it looks to
> me like this batch is sitting at .09 - .092. So, looks like this stuff
> is done for the most part. Man, that was fast at only 3 days. I will
> say that I have this stuff in an upstairs closet, and it is in a room
> that has a couple computers, so it gets a bit warm in here. I will
> have to get a themometer to get a real reading, although I would get
> suprised if it got over 80 up here. Since I got that reading, I
> decided to transfer into my 1 gallon secondary.
>
> The wine itself is still very cloudy. I went ahead and took a sip
> after racking into the jug, and it taste dry to me. And I can
> definately tell there is alcohol. O, lets hope the taste inproves as
> well.
>
> A few things to note.
> -I am glad I used a primary that is about 4.2 liters, because I barely
> had enough to fill the entire 1 gallon jug up to 1.5 inches
> under the bung. If I had used Jack's recipe to a T, I would have had
> to find something to top off with.
> -It should be interesting when I have to rack for real. I wasn't to
> conserned this time, but I swished the contents pretty good by messing
> up the start of the syphon. I also backwashed as I attempted to stop
> the syphon. If this had been a real rack with some clear wine, I would
> have clouded it up good.
>
> Day 2 (since yeast added) Batch 2 (white grape/ rasberry) - This stuff
> is still hapily foaming away. I gave it a stir today, and it foamed up
> nicely. Wouldn't be suprised if I rack this stuff to the secondary
> tomorrow, I will give it an SG reading if it isn't doing much.
>
> BBQ
>