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Testing and Correcting for Sugar
What the Saccharometer Shows To make wine of 10% alcohol To make wine of 12% alcohol
             
Potential Sugar/Gal lbs/10gal oz/gal lbs/10gal oz/gal
Specific Crude Alcohol % (lbs)
Gravity Balling* (Dujardin)+
               
1.039 10 4.5 0.6875 7.426 11.80 10.125 16.19
1.044 11 5.1 0.7765 6.436 10.13 9.234 14.77
1.048 12 5.7 0.8663 5.539 8.86 8.337 13.33
1.052 13 6.2 0.9568 4.634 7.41 7.432 11.90
1.056 14 7.2 1.0480 3.772 5.94 6.521 10.43
1.061 15 7.8 1.1399 2.903 4.64 5.601 8.92
1.065 16 8.4 1.2326 1.876 3.00 4.675 7.47
1.069 17 9.2 1.3260 0.924 1.50 3.740 5.98
1.074 18 9.8 1.4202 2.798 4.31
1.078 19 10.5 1.5151 1.849 2.95
1.082 20 11.2 1.6106 0.894 1.42
1.087 21 11.9 1.7073
1.091 22 12.6 1.8047
1.095 23 13.4 1.9027
1.099 24 14.1 2.0016
1.103 25 14.9 2.1014
1.107 26 15.5 2.2020
* The indication when the Balling saccharometer is floated in grape juice. It indicates   
the proportion by weight of total solids. (Most of the solids are sugar) 
  
+ The indication when the french, or the Dujardin, saccharometer is floated in grape  
juice. Direct reading shows potential alcoholic content by volume of the unfermented juice
  
Remember that results are not presise -- the yield of alcohol varying under the conditions of fermentation. To make wine of 11% alcohol by volume, add quantity halfway between the needed for 10% & 12%. 
  
Note: all columns are refferable by the specific gravity
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