{"id":67,"date":"2007-07-11T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T18:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/11\/i-bought-a-ph-meter\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T18:16:39","slug":"i-bought-a-ph-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/11\/i-bought-a-ph-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"I Bought A pH Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/22\/a-ph-of-36ish-why-id-like-a-ph-meter\/\">pH papers<\/a> for a while, but in making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/30\/cherry-wine-recipe\/\">red wine from cherries<\/a> I&#8217;ve gone beyond their limits. I can&#8217;t read the color very well when I&#8217;m measuring dark colored wine, and for the same reason, its tough to do acid titration with an indicator. Since I didn&#8217;t have a good way to measure it, I didn&#8217;t adjust the acidity of my cherry wine. Well it&#8217;s been fermenting away, but I didn&#8217;t solve that problem I just bought a little time. During that time, I ordered a cheap pH meter and I expect it to arrive today.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an old saying that if you buy cheap, you buy twice. That probably applies here, but sometimes that&#8217;s not a bad thing. Buying cheap can be a good way to learn just what you need in a tool, and help you buy intelligently later on. I understand that replacement tips for high end pH meters cost about what my meter cost, so it might be smart to just buy a new cheap meter every time the old one breaks. I don&#8217;t know yet, but right now I can measure acidity a lot more accurately than in the past. That should mean better wine, and I&#8217;m excited about that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used pH papers for a while, but in making red wine from cherries I&#8217;ve gone beyond their limits. I can&#8217;t read the color very well when I&#8217;m measuring dark colored wine, and for the same reason, its tough to do acid titration with an indicator. Since I didn&#8217;t have a good way to measure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}