Spyke
sh.itjust.works

Yeah I was tempted to comment on that too, 45 degrees in dry heat and under shade isn’t too bad.

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Try the Dutch climate. Here everything above 28 degrees C is, in my opinion, unbearable.

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And I would've failed maths (even more than I did) if I'd called that wonky thing Michael's doing an "angle", let alone 45°, nothing is perfect in life.

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TexasDrunkreply
lemmy.world

That's when we bring the horses inside the house and pull out the first winter brisket.

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lemmy.world

Horse goes in. Brisket comes out.
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Horse comes back out clacking metal tongs together, shouting, "yeah, well that dumb cow was an asshole!"

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exothermicreply
lemmy.world

I’m pretty sure he’s using a Brix meter, which provides a measurement in degrees of brix. Essentially lets the winemaker know how much sugar is in the grapes

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Slight clarification

A brix meter measures soluable solids in the juice. A major portion of which is sugar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brix

Changes in Brix does not slways correlate exactly with sugar content as other soluable solids are included in reading. Things like carotinoids etc. A little something to pay attention too when comparing varieties.

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tarte.nuage-libre.fr

I guess it's the alcohol by volume, sometimes called "degrees" (in France it's the most common term). 45 is quite a lot for wine though, but it could be for liqueur (people with actual knowledge corrected me below, it is actually degree Oeschle, which indicates the density of sugar in grape)

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JASN_DEreply
feddit.org

No. It's "degree Oechsle", a measurement for the sugar content of fresh grape juice

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I literally crossed it today, albeit on another continent than the one pictured here.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

I guess I was using a different scale when I worked at the winery. Never saw anything above 20.

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Did you talk about the alcohol volume, or the Oechsle scale ? I was thinking the same as you in terms of numbers, but someone corrected me. Fun to learn about it on Fediverse rather than in the vineyards, but i'll be sleeping less dumb anyway !

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After googling a little I learned that the scale we used is called Brix. One of my tasks in the winery was to take samples of grape juice and register the sugar content using a refractometer similar to the one on the picture.

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lemmy.zip

Oechsle is sugar content. 80 is average for the less sweet breeds. 45° is... maybe water melon.

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JASN_DEreply
feddit.org

Kelvin does not use the degree sign. Its simply "x Kelvin".

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Before 1967, the unit was called "degrees Kelvin" and was written as "°K", so you still might see "°K" in old publications or text written by people who never heard of the newer convention.

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