{"id":261,"date":"2008-09-23T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T20:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2009-12-30T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:04:42","slug":"getting-punchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2008\/09\/23\/getting-punchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Punchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-262\" title=\"The cap before punching\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/The-cap-before-punching.JPG\" alt=\"The cap before punching\" width=\"369\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/The-cap-before-punching.JPG 640w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/The-cap-before-punching-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Definitely getting a distinct cap on both sets today.\u00a0 I have a little lab set next to the trash cans with sanitizer in a spray bottle, the wine <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/wine-thief-thief\/\">thief<\/a> and <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/hydrometer\/\">hydrometer<\/a> for monitoring the <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/brix\/\">brix<\/a>, a floating thermometer to keep an eye on the temperature, the big spoon for stirring, and of course a plastic potato masher.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-263\" title=\"The Tools for primary\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/The-Tools-for-primary.JPG\" alt=\"The Tools for primary\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/The-Tools-for-primary.JPG 640w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/The-Tools-for-primary-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The potato mashers are for punching down the cap.\u00a0 I got 2 expecting to potentially break one, because that just seems to happen when you really don\u2019t want it to.\u00a0 The cap gets punched down 3 times a day until it is fermented to dryness \u2013 meaning all of the sugars are converted to alcohol.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264\" title=\"After punching\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/After-punching.JPG\" alt=\"After punching\" width=\"411\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/After-punching.JPG 640w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/After-punching-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both sets seem much \u201cjuicier\u201d today, the vinozyme must be doing its stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely getting a distinct cap on both sets today.\u00a0 I have a little lab set next to the trash cans with sanitizer in a spray bottle, the wine thief and hydrometer for monitoring the brix, a floating thermometer to keep an eye on the temperature, the big spoon for stirring, and of course a plastic [&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":[36,28,33,4,32,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}