Fortifying Coffee Port

[shiloh]

Anyone out there have any suggestions on how to determine how much everclear to add to a three gallon batch of port in order to alchol content to 18 - 20 percent? Am making a coffee port from a kit and want to fortify it.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Shiloh

 

[Deezil]

You're looking for the Pearson Square

I guess he fashioned the article toward sweetness but it works for fortifying as well..

Another table for sweetening, from here but it shows you how to set up the letters

A = Your wine, ABV 12-14% probably?
B = Your Everclear, ABV 75-90%?
C = The ABV you want

C - A = E
B - C = D

D = Everclear by 'parts'
E = Your wine by 'parts'

So if you had a 12% ABV wine, with a 75% ABV Everclear (151) and you wanted 18%

18 - 12 = 6
75 - 18 = 57

57 parts wine, 6 parts everclear

57 + 6 = 63 total parts
6/63 = 9.5% everclear
57/6 = 90.4% wine

90.4% = 3 gallons of wine
9.5% = [9.5 * (15/90.4)]

15 = 3 gallons x 5 bottles per gallon

1.57 bottles of everclear needed in this example

Sometimes the ratios work out more pretty, but i just tried to hammer out the math so maybe you could make senses of it

 

[Runningwolf]

I added a partial bottle of Hazelnut brandy to my kit. I don't know the abv.

 

[shiloh]

Thank you all for your help with the coffee port/everclear. One last question: When do you add the everclear during the process and for how long do you bulk after mixing.

Thanks again,

 

[Runningwolf]

Give it 30 days but really you could bottle the next day. I prefer to let it smooth out a bit.