We like them too! Plus they're easy to get from Amazon. We also use the William's Brewing Merlot, which comes in a 5 gallon concentrate so lasts a bit longer and is a little cheaper per gallon (even with shipping) for us. Thanks for watching, Austin!! :)
Interesting and entertaining video. Thank you. I just checked the Nature Blessed container and it shows 16 g of sugar in each fluid ounce, with 32 ounces per container. Simple arithmetic suggests that there are 512 g of fermentable sugars in each container and that converts to about 1.13 pounds of sugar. And that will have a specific gravity of 1.050 when diluted to make 1 US gallon. That means that if you simply added 1 pound of table sugar to the juice and then filled the fermenter to the 1 US gallon mark, the gravity of that must should be about 1.095. That you can confirm with your hydrometer with a single test. In short , the ingredients label tells the wine maker a great deal of useful information. Just sayin'.
Thanks for watching, Bernard! A few main reasons why we take hydrometer readings on all our videos (even if we have done it before on the same batch of juice): 1) we are teaching how to make wine, and using a hydrometer is a basic skill that all winemakers should use, in our opinion. 2) we used Nature Blessed concentrate in the video, but the viewer can use whatever they have or want to use. 3) the FDA allows US nutrition labels to be up to 20% higher or lower than actual, which makes them interesting but not normally accurate enough, also in our opinion. :) We also have a tool at CraftyWiners.com/tools that takes the nutrition label info and does the math for you, but we still recommend using a hydrometer reading. Thank you for the feedback!
@@CraftyWiners No argument from me except I would argue that the label provides any wine maker no matter how experienced or inexperienced with an approximate value of the potential ABV, and given that gift taking a measurement means that you have some sense of how reliable your own measurement is so that if the wine maker misreads the hydrometer, it's kind of obvious.
I’m a big fan of the nature’s blessed concentrates. I have 8 going right now.
We like them too! Plus they're easy to get from Amazon. We also use the William's Brewing Merlot, which comes in a 5 gallon concentrate so lasts a bit longer and is a little cheaper per gallon (even with shipping) for us. Thanks for watching, Austin!! :)
Thanks you two, some good tips. Have wanted to make a merlot so I will be watching as you work toward the finished wine. Carl
Our pleasure!
Interesting and entertaining video. Thank you.
I just checked the Nature Blessed container and it shows 16 g of sugar in each fluid ounce, with 32 ounces per container. Simple arithmetic suggests that there are 512 g of fermentable sugars in each container and that converts to about 1.13 pounds of sugar. And that will have a specific gravity of 1.050 when diluted to make 1 US gallon. That means that if you simply added 1 pound of table sugar to the juice and then filled the fermenter to the 1 US gallon mark, the gravity of that must should be about 1.095. That you can confirm with your hydrometer with a single test. In short , the ingredients label tells the wine maker a great deal of useful information. Just sayin'.
Thanks for watching, Bernard!
A few main reasons why we take hydrometer readings on all our videos (even if we have done it before on the same batch of juice):
1) we are teaching how to make wine, and using a hydrometer is a basic skill that all winemakers should use, in our opinion.
2) we used Nature Blessed concentrate in the video, but the viewer can use whatever they have or want to use.
3) the FDA allows US nutrition labels to be up to 20% higher or lower than actual, which makes them interesting but not normally accurate enough, also in our opinion. :)
We also have a tool at CraftyWiners.com/tools that takes the nutrition label info and does the math for you, but we still recommend using a hydrometer reading.
Thank you for the feedback!
@@CraftyWiners No argument from me except I would argue that the label provides any wine maker no matter how experienced or inexperienced with an approximate value of the potential ABV, and given that gift taking a measurement means that you have some sense of how reliable your own measurement is so that if the wine maker misreads the hydrometer, it's kind of obvious.
Absolutely, anything you can do to help double-check yourself is a great thing to do!! :)