How Do You Measure The Alcohol Content Of Wine?
The fermentation is over and you are ready to bottle the wine that you have been carefully nurturing. The taste is right but you cannot tell the alcohol content from taste. For that you need a device called a vinometer, an inexpensive tool found at brewing stores or online. Withdraw a small sample from the fermentor. To get an accurate reading, especially with sweet wines, mix 1 teaspoon of the wine you are testing with 1 teaspoon of water in a clean container and stir the mixture well. Fill the reservoir of the vinometer with the prepared sample. Continue to fill the reservoir until some wine exits from the other end of the device. Make sure there are no air bubbles in the tube. If they appear tap lightly with your finger until the bubbles disperse. Holding the vinometer upright, rotate it 180 degrees and carefully set it on a flat plate. Watch as the mixture drains and then record the reading when the sample is stabilized in the capillary tube. Multiply the number you have recorded b
