{"id":2286,"date":"2011-07-14T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T20:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2011-07-27T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T21:32:06","slug":"oak-trials-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2011\/07\/14\/oak-trials-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Oak Trials Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/06\/25\/oak-trials-experiment\/\">oak trials<\/a> continue!\u00a0 All wines were <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/stabilized-stabilizing\/\">stabilized<\/a> and <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/clearing-cleared-clarification\/\">cleared<\/a> about a week ago.\u00a0 Today I&#8217;m <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/rack-racking\/\">racking<\/a> them all, and the unoaked wine kit will be split into 1-gallon batches.\u00a0 I had just under 6 full gallons after racking, so I used the little bit left over to top the pre-fermentation oak batches.\u00a0 I realize this is yet another additional variable in the experiment, but the carboys only needed a few milliliters to top up.<\/p>\n<p>I weighed out the oak chips into the one-gallon jugs before racking, then put airlocks on top of them all:\u00a0 American oak at 5 grams and 10 grams per gallon, French oak at 5 grams and 10 grams per gallon, and one unoaked control.\u00a0 Now they will hang out for 4 weeks and then get bottled.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2287\" href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/07\/14\/oak-trials-continue\/oak-trials-on-the-shelf\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2287\" title=\"oak trials on the shelf\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/oak-trials-on-the-shelf-500x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/oak-trials-on-the-shelf-500x222.jpg 500w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/oak-trials-on-the-shelf.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oak trials continue!\u00a0 All wines were stabilized and cleared about a week ago.\u00a0 Today I&#8217;m racking them all, and the unoaked wine kit will be split into 1-gallon batches.\u00a0 I had just under 6 full gallons after racking, so I used the little bit left over to top the pre-fermentation oak batches.\u00a0 I realize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,45,128,5,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}