Hi Winemakers-- I recently published a website, www.iwinemaker.com, and
I'm looking for feedback from beginning and experienced winemakers.
iWinemaker is mostly a collection of calculators that are meant to
provide the right amount of additives for fermentation, acid
adjustment, fining, oaking and sulfite based upon individual quantities
of must, juice or wine entered. I want to make iwinemaker useful, easy
and above all accurate. I'd really appreciate it if anyone interested
in this sort of thing would briefly check the site out and give me an
indication as to whether I'm on the right track.

iWinemaker is a free site and I'm hoping to have any bugs worked out
before this year's harvest so winemakers can take advantage of it.
Again, I'd really appreciate your feedback either on this forum or via
an email think that's on the site.

Thanks in advance,

Ron Seide
iWinemaker.com

I could not spend a lot of time yet, but it looked ok from what I saw.
As to acid reduction, you may want to add something on potassium
carbonate and/or potassium bicarbonate since they can be used later to
correct high acid wines.

Joe

wrote:
> Hi Winemakers-- I recently published a website, www.iwinemaker.com, and
> I'm looking for feedback from beginning and experienced winemakers.
> iWinemaker is mostly a collection of calculators that are meant to
> provide the right amount of additives for fermentation, acid
> adjustment, fining, oaking and sulfite based upon individual quantities
> of must, juice or wine entered. I want to make iwinemaker useful, easy
> and above all accurate. I'd really appreciate it if anyone interested
> in this sort of thing would briefly check the site out and give me an
> indication as to whether I'm on the right track.
>
> iWinemaker is a free site and I'm hoping to have any bugs worked out
> before this year's harvest so winemakers can take advantage of it.
> Again, I'd really appreciate your feedback either on this forum or via
> an email think that's on the site.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ron Seide
> iWinemaker.com

> iWinemaker is a free site and I'm hoping to have any bugs worked out
> before this year's harvest so winemakers can take advantage of it.
> Again, I'd really appreciate your feedback either on this forum or via
> an email think that's on the site.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ron Seide
> iWinemaker.com
>

When using gallon, pint etc measurements, could you specify whether it's US
or Imperial? Just to take the uncertainty and guesswork out of things.

Mike

Great feedback , Mike , and better still, easy to implement! :-)

I'll roll this into my next update.

Thanks.

Actually, I do provide measurements for *calcium* carbonate for acid
reducation in the acid adjustment calculator but it's at the bottom of
the page (and apparently hidden quite well). Maybe I'll swap that
section with the acid increase measurements so both are immediately
visable.

Do you advocate potassium carbonate and/or potassium bicarbonate over
calcium carbonate? Do you happen to know if the measurements for
potassium
carbonate and/or potassium bicarbonate would be the same as those for
calcium carbonate?

Thanks,

Ron