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
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