Recent content by philbard

Interesting idea. Maybe I can find the time to do this in the next couple weeks. Where is your vid?

I do a lot of Pinot Noir, living in the Willamette Valley. Besides the quality of the fruit, fermentation temperatures and yeast make the biggest differences in how it turns out. All the other phases, cold soak, extended maceration, etc matter too but less I think. A heat spike early in primary...

In my experience this not uncommon in barrels that are shipped over long distances or that may have been in storage for awhile. I don't fret unless its been full of water for 24 hours and the leak is still present. Wood just dries out and shrinks, even on high end barrels. Don't worry too much...

Oops, thanks for fixing it sour_grapes...

I've been refurbishing barrels for a few years now in my home shop. Not for the faint of heart but if you're motivated you can do it. Here is an article on how: http://bardcellars.com/refurbishing-a-wine-barrel/ Cheers, Phil

I understand your problem as I do this a lot. Here's what I do lately and it seems to work. I take the inner tube out of the racking tool, or any piece of tubing, put it into the gallon jug. I put the other end in the container I want to rack to. Then I wrap my hand around the opening, so that...

I've not used it but I hear people have success with store bought cream of tartare. And you don't really want it to dissolve, just stir in gently. The idea is that the crystals themselves become the foundation for further crystal growth. You are in effect, "seeding."

Many people don't consider 3.7 a high pH wine, depending on what varietal it is. Actually, the "tipping point" for cold stabilization is closer to 3.7, although it is not a precise number by many accounts. The tipping point is the pH at which no significant change in pH occurs with cold...

Just tested by deleting all of the varietals, then hitting the Add button. Worked OK for me, but one thing that may not be obvious is that after hitting Add, the new line must be clicked in once in order to start entering text. Cheers,

A significant upgrade of CellarMetrics has just been released, version 1.1. It brings Barrel Management to the program. Log in your barrels and assign them to Batches to track how much oak those Batches receive. Additionally, total days of usage for all barrels is constantly monitored...

CM update Turns out Codeman is correct, both bugs have now been fixed. New sample files are on the website and new versions of the Full Program and Upgrades will appear shortly. Version will be 1.04 Thanks Codeman Phil Cellarmetrics.com

Rounding up, etc. Hi, I'm not aware of what you are referring to when you say CellarMetrics rounds up to whole dollars. I've been careful to preserve expense figures without this, but if you have found a spot that doesn't I'd appreciate hearing about where it is so I can fix it. Also...