Winemaking Calculator

romeosierra11 21 years ago

Hi Winemakers-- I recently published a website,

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and I'm looking for feedback from beginning and experienced winemakers. iWinemaker is mostly a collection of calculators that are meant to provide the right amount of additives for fermentation, acid adjustment, fining, oaking and sulfite based upon individual quantities of must, juice or wine entered. I want to make iwinemaker useful, easy and above all accurate. I'd really appreciate it if anyone interested in this sort of thing would briefly check the site out and give me an indication as to whether I'm on the right track.

iWinemaker is a free site and I'm hoping to have any bugs worked out before this year's harvest so winemakers can take advantage of it. Again, I'd really appreciate your feedback either on this forum or via an email think that's on the site.

Thanks in advance,

Ron Seide iWinemaker.com

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Joe Sallustio 21 years ago

I could not spend a lot of time yet, but it looked ok from what I saw. As to acid reduction, you may want to add something on potassium carbonate and/or potassium bicarbonate since they can be used later to correct high acid wines.

Joe

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Mike 21 years ago

When using gallon, pint etc measurements, could you specify whether it's US or Imperial? Just to take the uncertainty and guesswork out of things.

Mike

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romeosierra11 21 years ago

Great feedback , Mike , and better still, easy to implement! :-)

I'll roll this into my next update.

Thanks.

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romeosierra11 21 years ago

Actually, I do provide measurements for *calcium* carbonate for acid reducation in the acid adjustment calculator but it's at the bottom of the page (and apparently hidden quite well). Maybe I'll swap that section with the acid increase measurements so both are immediately visable.

Do you advocate potassium carbonate and/or potassium bicarbonate over calcium carbonate? Do you happen to know if the measurements for potassium carbonate and/or potassium bicarbonate would be the same as those for calcium carbonate?

Thanks,

Ron

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