Use this oenology calculation to document or plan a defined fermentation, blending, adjustment, stabilization, aging, packaging, sensory, or cellar operation from measured wine parameters.

Brix (°Bx)

Dissolved sugar concentration in degrees Brix.

Estimate solution specific gravity from degrees Brix with an empirical brewing and winemaking conversion; temperature, dissolved non-sugars, and alcohol can make measured must or wine differ. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.^[1]

Specific gravity

Estimated specific gravity of the sugar solution.

• Wine chemistry and microbiology depend on temperature, pH, alcohol, sugar, matrix, measurement method, microbial state, legal limits, product formulation, and bench-trial response. Generic doses and thresholds are not production instructions for every wine.
• Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.

Confirm measurements with calibrated winery methods, run scaled bench trials, record additions and lot volumes, check local regulations and supplier specifications, and obtain professional laboratory advice for faults or stability risks.

• Potential Alcohol from SG Calculator

  Convert must specific gravity to approximate Brix and then potential alcohol with a caller-selected ABV-per-Brix factor; residual sugar and fermentation efficiency can change actual ABV.

• Chaptalization Sugar Requirement Calculator

  Estimate sucrose needed to raise must from measured Brix to a target potential alcohol using 0.59% potential ABV per °Bx and 10 g/L sugar per added °Bx; volume change and non-sugar extract are ignored.

• Specific Gravity to Brix Converter

  Convert a hydrometer specific gravity reading to dissolved sugar in degrees Brix.