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| − | <p class=MsoNormal>You’re an aspiring chemist and you want/need to make some <span
| + | You’re an aspiring chemist and you want/need to make some Wood, Worm or Grain spirits in an alembic. |
| − | lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>Wood, Worm or Grain spirits in an alembic.
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| | Surfing through the wiki you read that you need wine with high tannin. You’ve | | Surfing through the wiki you read that you need wine with high tannin. You’ve |
| − | got your grapes; you load them into the barrel and wait.<span | + | got your grapes; you load them into the barrel and wait |
| − | style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Periodically you siphon off a sample and
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| − | check the tannin level. Unfortunately the levels are not going up very
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| − | fast.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to
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| − | predict which grapes will give the most <span class=GramE>tannin.</span> Well
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| − | now we can. As it turns out tannin is developed in wine from three
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| − | characteristics, colour (C), skin (K) and patience (time). In fact the formula
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| − | is <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>relatively</i> straight forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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| − | <p class=MsoNormal>Where:</p>
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| − | <p class=MsoNormal>T is the amount of tannin.</p>
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| − | <p class=MsoNormal>C is the colour value of the grapes.</p>
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| − | <p class=MsoNormal>K is the skin value of the grapes.</p>
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| − | <p class=MsoNormal>ETD is the amount of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
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| − | w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region></st1:place> time (in days) the wine has
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| − | been in the barrel.</p>
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| − | <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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| − | <p class=MsoNormal>From this you can see that the maximum tannin possible is
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| − | the colour value multiplied by the skin value divided by 100.<span
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| − | style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>So when you pick with vines to use you must
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| − | also look for a C <span class=SpellE>phenome</span>. Colour is just as
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| − | important as skin! Having wine with a skin value of 300 but a colour value of
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| − | 10 will only yield <span class=GramE>30 tannin</span>. But if you could take
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| − | 100 points from skin and put that into colour the maximum tannin jumps to 220
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| − | (110 X 200 / 100). </p>
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