{"id":1513,"date":"2003-08-06T09:34:35","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2003-08-06T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2003-08-06T14:34:35","slug":"twenty-three-bottles-of-wine-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Three Bottles of Wine on the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"orangebottles.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/orangebottles.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nOk, so it&#8217;s a kitchen island, not a wall.  And if you count, there are 26 actual bottles.  But six of them are half-size mini bottles, so if you&#8217;re measuring volume it works out to twenty three.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe blood orange wine is all bottled up!  It settled down nicely since Sunday, and we sent it through three layers of filters just in case&#8230;  It&#8217;s a bit harsh, but that&#8217;s to be expected.  I did a hydrometer check and it looks like we got about 18% alcohol on this batch.  It should mellow nicely, and it ought to be quite drinkable by Christmas or so.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of bottling was using my friend Rob&#8217;s floor-standing corker.  I&#8217;ve corked wine before using a hand-held scissors grip device, and it was a painful experience.  The floor-standing corker was a dream.  We had all of the bottles corked in about ten minutes, with no wasted corks and hardly any effort!  If you&#8217;re bottling a lot of wine, you <b>need<\/b> one of these&#8230;  Hopefully, I can borrow Rob&#8217;s again when the next batch is ready.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we were winemaking fiends&#8230;  After bottling the blood orange and scrubbing out the carboy we transferred the apple wine over and added some pectin enzyme.  Hopefully that&#8217;ll clear it up.  We tasted it a bit while we were doing the transfer&#8230;  It&#8217;s <b>very<\/b> nice&#8230;  If it weren&#8217;t hazy, I&#8217;d say it should be bottled right away.  As it is, I&#8217;ll give the enzymes a month or two to clear things up, and if that doesn&#8217;t work I&#8217;ll use the gelatin finings.<\/p>\n<p>And to close out the whole wine-making experience, last night the blueberry wine blew its top.  A flake of blueberry skin got into the water-lock and sealed the intake, so the whole carboy just kept building up CO<sub>2<\/sub> pressure until it blew the stopper out.  Fortunately, it was underneath the kitchen table.  If it hadn&#8217;t been, I would have spent the morning mopping blueberry pulp off of the ceiling instead of wiping the underside of the table&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so it&#8217;s a kitchen island, not a wall. And if you count, there are 26 actual bottles. But six of them are half-size mini bottles, so if you&#8217;re measuring volume it works out to twenty three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}