OK, this has probably been asked plenty of times before but I can't seem to
find it in the newsgroup - possibly because we have just killed off a couple
of bottles of wine ;-)

Tomorrow I want to start a Strawberry wine, based upon recipe number 2 from
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques5.asp. This will be my first go at a
non-kit wine apart from my half-complete mead.

So I add boiling water to my strawberries (preumably no need for campden
because of the temparature) and this mashes my strawberries. Once cooled I
add my yeast.

I now have a mix of fruit and water. Can I take an SG reading from this
directly for working out alchol content later? I am guessing that the
strawberryness will continue to infuse into the liquid for the full week
that it is in the primary which I guess changes the SG. So is my SG reading
going to be way off for practical use or does it not really matter?

Thanks in advance for any information.

RDC