Tagged: sugar

Calculating Chaptalization Sugar 2

Calculating Chaptalization Sugar

updated 06/25/2024 This post is inspired by yet another question on WineMakingTalk, asking about how much sugar to buy to chaptalize 50 gallons of cider. Sugar is currently on sale and the questioner knows...

Fixing Fruit Wine Recipes 2

Fixing Fruit Wine Recipes

I read old fruit wine recipes and one thing jumps out at me — the large amount of sugar often specified in some of these recipes. Largfe amounts of sugar produces wines with very...