{"id":891,"date":"2009-12-29T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T23:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?page_id=891"},"modified":"2009-12-30T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T17:21:07","slug":"brix","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/brix\/","title":{"rendered":"brix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Degrees Brix (symbol \u00b0Bx) is a measurement of the dissolved sugar-to-water mass ratio of a liquid.\u00a0 For example, a 26 \u00b0Bx solution is 26% (s\/w), with 26 grams of sugar per 100 grams of solution.\u00a0 It is used in winemaking to determine the sugar content of the wine grapes (generally measured with a refractometer), as well as to estimate the final percentage of alcohol of the finished wine (measured with a <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/hydrometer\/\">hydrometer<\/a>).\u00a0 As wine <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/must\/\">must<\/a> ferments, the sugars are converted to alcohol, and the brix reading drops.\u00a0 A wine fermentation is considered \u201cdry\u201d when brix are at approximately 0 \u00b0Bx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Degrees Brix (symbol \u00b0Bx) is a measurement of the dissolved sugar-to-water mass ratio of a liquid.\u00a0 For example, a 26 \u00b0Bx solution is 26% (s\/w), with 26 grams of sugar per 100 grams of solution.\u00a0 It is used in winemaking to determine the sugar content of the wine grapes (generally measured with a refractometer), as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":829,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/891\/revisions\/942"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}