How much sugar to put into 5ltr demijohn....Help please!

quetzal63

Hi all,
Made many a beer over the last few years, but now I'm older(so naturally more sophisticated???)
I thought that I'd try making a batch of wine from store bought fruit juice. I'd like to make it about 12% in strength, but cannot find exactly how much sugar I will need to add to get approximately this sort of percentage. Never really got on that well with a hydrometer, but if anyone can tell me how much sugar I need say per ltr, that would be great. Many thanks in advance.

HBO_Staff

If making wine from juice then a guide of how much sugar to add can really help, here is a link to the instructions that come with our hydrometers, which has a section on 'Adding Sugar'. There is a table and it gives you a guide of how much sugar per litre to add to get the various strengths:

http://www.home-brew-online.co.uk/instructions/hydrometer-instructions .pdf