Seven Day Wine - Brewing Aftermath

The seven short days with my wine were fairly uneventful. There was a lot of bubbling going on in the airlock and not much else. Solomon was kind enough to include detailed instructions and after five days he told me to check a sample of the wine with a hydrometer. Reading the hydrometer was a Grade-A bitch of a difficult task and I practically didn't have a clue what I was reading. Depending on the outcome, I was meant to add Stabiliser but I couldn't read it, so added it anyway. I then did some funky shaking stuff to get rid of excess gas from the bottle, and then added a sachet of "Add Back" - whatever that is. I had a distinct feeling that the wine making was quite out of my own hands. It would've been nice for Solomon Grundy to let me know what each sachet of whatever was doing. Regardless, I continued on to add a sachet of "Kieselsol" which I presume is some sort of Hungarian prostitute concentrate.

I drunk the sample used with the hydrometer - it was yeasty and bitter which I wont lie, is not how I usually like my wine or anything at all. Went straight to my head though, so on the fifth day I rested - a bit like God.

The day after I added "Chitosan" which apparently clears the wine - god knows how. I left it for 24 hours and the wine started clearing and going a sort of amber, apple-juice colour. Sediment built up at the bottom and with the wine ready I sterilised some empty wine bottles, added a final 400g of sugar to the wine mixture, shook to dissolve and siphoned the wine into the empty bottles. I had another go at the hydrometer and managed to work out it has an alcoholic strength of about 11% and is classed as "very sweet".

On to tasting - it really is not bad. In fact, it's a lot better than I thought it would be and I'd happily drink six bottles of it, which is convenient because that's how much I possess. It's very sweet, fruity, and I'd go as far as saying it's actually good. So frankly I reckon that's a success for my first home brewing attempt.

Now to come up with a name for my home brew...-?