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