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

Specific gravity

Specific gravity of an unfermented sugar solution; alcohol makes this conversion unreliable after fermentation begins.

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

Brix

Dissolved sugar concentration in degrees Brix.

• 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.

• Brix to Specific Gravity Converter

  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.

• Oechsle to Brix Converter

  Convert German Oechsle degrees to approximate degrees Brix through the equivalent specific gravity.

• 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.