Harvesting Baca Noir
october 7
Some of the angels spent a lovely, warm afternoon helping Chief Angel Randy harvest and stem his Baca Noir grapes... and getting a chemistry lesson too!
In the beginning there were the grapes:
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| Susan and Grace |
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| Randy |
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| Fred |
3 1/2 garbage bags later....
Weighing the grapes
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Into the crusher... stemming grapes makes for sticky hands
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| Nat, Grace, Freeman hard at work |
But lest you think it was all work and no play.... there was happy hour too!
Just foolin' around...
Squished grapes
Measuring sugar content
Now to measure the acidity. This involved adding sodium sulfate (? or some other double-barreled chemical) and water, then watching for a color change; from purple to dark gray.
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| First, read the instructions |
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| Second, add stuff |
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| Uh oh!!! |
And so we left Randy to clean up, sterilize, add yeast, etc etc. Thanks, Randy!
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