Thanks Joe, I was doing what I did off the top of my head. I probably
should have waited till I had access to my hand book at home.

Ray

"Joe Sallustio" > wrote in message
om...
> I followed Ray's reasoning and tended to agree with him, so I did some
> calculations. It turns out the rate of change looks to be 5 times as
> much at the upper end of the temperatures wine is exposed to as at the
> lower end.
>
> In short, forget about the 1.4ml/F idea, it's far from linear as Ray
> stated.
>
> I would like to run some tests to prove these values out, but would be
> happy to email the spreadsheet this is based on to anyone interested,
> I tried to post an abbreviated version below. Maybe the tabs will be
> preserved, maybe not...
>
> Joe
>
> Here are some values:
>
> Temp Ethyl Water Weight Glassware %ABV Density
> Dens
> F Density Density 1 US Gallon Correction @ ABV
> ml/l
>
>
> 32 0.80625 0.99987 3780.543 1.00048 10 0.98098 0.00
> 41 0.80207 0.99999 3781.090 1.00036 10 0.98055 0.43
> 50 0.79788 0.99973 3780.167 1.00024 10 0.97978 0.77
> 59 0.79367 0.99913 3777.962 1.00012 10 0.97870 1.08
> 68 0.78945 0.99823 3774.653 1.00000 10 0.97735 1.35
> 77 0.78522 0.99707 3770.340 0.99988 10 0.97577 1.58
> 86 0.78097 0.99567 3765.109 0.99975 10 0.97396 1.81
> 95 0.77671 0.99406 3759.050 0.99963 10 0.97197 1.99
>
> 32 0.80625 0.99987 3780.543 1.00048 11 0.97904 0.00
> 41 0.80207 0.99999 3781.090 1.00036 11 0.97857 0.47
> 50 0.79788 0.99973 3780.167 1.00024 11 0.97776 0.81
> 59 0.79367 0.99913 3777.962 1.00012 11 0.97665 1.11
> 68 0.78945 0.99823 3774.653 1.00000 11 0.97526 1.38
> 77 0.78522 0.99707 3770.340 0.99988 11 0.97365 1.61
> 86 0.78097 0.99567 3765.109 0.99975 11 0.97181 1.84
> 95 0.77671 0.99406 3759.050 0.99963 11 0.96979 2.02
>
> 32 0.80625 0.99987 3780.543 1.00048 12 0.97710 0.00
> 41 0.80207 0.99999 3781.090 1.00036 12 0.97659 0.51
> 50 0.79788 0.99973 3780.167 1.00024 12 0.97574 0.85
> 59 0.79367 0.99913 3777.962 1.00012 12 0.97459 1.15
> 68 0.78945 0.99823 3774.653 1.00000 12 0.97318 1.42
> 77 0.78522 0.99707 3770.340 0.99988 12 0.97153 1.64
> 86 0.78097 0.99567 3765.109 0.99975 12 0.96966 1.87
> 95 0.77671 0.99406 3759.050 0.99963 12 0.96762 2.04
>
> 32 0.80625 0.99987 3780.543 1.00048 13 0.97517 0.00
> 41 0.80207 0.99999 3781.090 1.00036 13 0.97461 0.56
> 50 0.79788 0.99973 3780.167 1.00024 13 0.97372 0.89
> 59 0.79367 0.99913 3777.962 1.00012 13 0.97254 1.19
> 68 0.78945 0.99823 3774.653 1.00000 13 0.97109 1.45
> 77 0.78522 0.99707 3770.340 0.99988 13 0.96941 1.68
> 86 0.78097 0.99567 3765.109 0.99975 13 0.96752 1.90
> 95 0.77671 0.99406 3759.050 0.99963 13 0.96545 2.07
>
> 32 0.80625 0.99987 3780.543 1.00048 14 0.97323 0.00
> 41 0.80207 0.99999 3781.090 1.00036 14 0.97263 0.60
> 50 0.79788 0.99973 3780.167 1.00024 14 0.97170 0.93
> 59 0.79367 0.99913 3777.962 1.00012 14 0.97048 1.22
> 68 0.78945 0.99823 3774.653 1.00000 14 0.96900 1.48
> 77 0.78522 0.99707 3770.340 0.99988 14 0.96729 1.71
> 86 0.78097 0.99567 3765.109 0.99975 14 0.96537 1.92
> 95 0.77671 0.99406 3759.050 0.99963 14 0.96327 2.10