Stabilizing your wine, cider or mead is a process that prevents fermentation from restarting and protects your wine from any forms micro organisms or oxygen that managed to get in while racking. These unwanted additions can cause spoilage, cloudiness or oxidation.
Looking at old wine and cider recipes, you might have seen something called campden, or campden tablets being used. But what are they and what do they do?
One of the terms or questions you often hear homebrewers talking about is gravity. What was the gravity? Or what’s the final gravity?
Just what is this gravity,, or more accurately “specific gravity” and why do we care about it.
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