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Alas, I am sure this may be a "stupid question," but I am not
educated enough on the subject of making wine to know if it is even a valid question or not, let alone know the answer. In October I started my first batch of wine, using Concorde Grape juice. All went well as far as I could tell: fermentation was robust and protracted, and eventually it ceased after a month or so. I have kept the air lock on, and it has sat still ever since after one racking at the end of October. Now I wish to know--- how does one know if the wine is good or bad? That is, how does one know if it has turned to vinegar? I have no idea what it is supposed to taste like. I can tell it is alcoholic, and that all of the sugar is gone (it is "dry" as far as I can tell), though I do not know the alcohol content (I broke my hydrometer in October) nor do I know if it tastes the way it should. I will probably bottle it in a day or two and take a sample to the "Yeast Herder's Gatherum" at Dragonfest in August and ask someone to taste it for me. I followed what I believe to be the correct steps, as I have outlined in my two videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZWyYeDQnUk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJPhkDwIZro -- http://desertphile.org Desertphile's Desert Soliloquy. WARNING: view with plenty of water "Why aren't resurrections from the dead noteworthy?" -- Jim Rutz |