Unfortunatly my first delivery was damaged in transit, however when i emailed brew2bottle about the issue they could not of been more helpful, replacing everything that was even slightly warped or scatched. Great customer service and cant wait to give this a go now
Title of my review says it all! Very pleased with this retailer and will definitely use them again.
I hope this turns out ok because it is the first time with such a high priced kit.
Following the instructions to the letter the OG was 1.073 which indicated a final ABV of just 10% and that's not a high end Merlot which is advertised to finish at 14%. I put it down to the bag of grape skins which wasn't being recorded by my tilt hydrometer (iSpindel). It took 24 hours to rise and reach 1.082 but still nowhere near Merlot alcohol.level. I had to add 25 oz. of Dextrose in stages to bring the gravity up to what was calculated to produce an acceptable 14%. After 15 days fermentation stopped with the hydrometer showing 115% attenuation and 14.54%.
1 1/2 litres of water brought that down to 14.27%
I'm happy with that but I shouldn't have had to add any amount of Dextrose or water. By the time it is racked there will be a full 30 bottles. Most kits I've bought in the past usually produced only 29 bottles from the starting gate of 23 litres.
44cm Easy Start Auto Syphon For 25L Fermenters