ferment dry?
 

in a recipe it said to ferment dry?hmm dont want to sound like an idiot
but i dont no what that is.can someone please help out a rookie.

ferment dry?
 

It means to ferment until a hydrometer reads a low S.G. Usually under
1.000.

ferment dry?
 

k-dawg wrote:
> in a recipe it said to ferment dry?hmm dont want to sound like an idiot
> but i dont no what that is.can someone please help out a rookie.

"Dry" is an oenophile ... uh that's wine-lover ... term. It means the
wine is not sweet. Don't worry, a "dry wine" is still "fluid". Pours
out of bottle into glass, and you can swallow it without having
something to wash it down with. :)

Either the flavors in the wine recipe in question won't taste right
with residual sweetness, or the alcohol/flavor balance is more suited
to a dinner wine (who want's a sweet wine with their pot roast?).

Or maybe the author is worried you won't be able to figure out how to
stabilize a sweet wine, and doesn't want the liability of shattered
glass wine bottles.