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KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 15:38 Sat 31 Oct 2009

123

120

117

All too low

Post by **DRT** » 16:34 Sat 31 Oct 2009

Post by **jdaw1** » 16:53 Sat 31 Oct 2009

Post by **DRT** » 16:57 Sat 31 Oct 2009

Post by **jdaw1** » 17:06 Sat 31 Oct 2009

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 17:39 Sat 31 Oct 2009

136?

Too High

144?

Too High

139?

Too high

132?

Too correct - annoyingly, jdaw1's up

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:20 Sat 31 Oct 2009

KillerB wrote:
132?
Too correct - annoyingly, jdaw1's up

jdaw1 wrote:Which is so certain to be correct that I had better start thinking of a question.

Told you.

jdaw1 wrote:(The preparatory work for the next question is underway.)

As some of you doubtless guessed, the ‟preparatory work” consisted of decanting a bottle of port. When, for the second time, I used a new piece of technology, that which I hereby call a ‟decanting spoon”.

My decanting spoon is a white plastic spoon, with a long handle and a small bowl, originally intended for feeding a newly-weaned child.” How is it used to assist decanting?

” More will be purchased, to be shared with the team. Never leave home without it.

Post by **DRT** » 20:01 Sat 31 Oct 2009

I cannot imagine JDAW decanting without his usual funnel and filter paper so I am assuming this is additional to those items. Is the spoon used to prevent an air-tight seal developing between the funnel and the rim of the decanter, thus providing a gap for air to escape and port to flow at a good rate?

Post by **DRT** » 20:02 Sat 31 Oct 2009

...and it is rude not to tell us which port you were decanting

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:49 Sat 31 Oct 2009

DRT wrote:I cannot imagine JDAW decanting without his usual funnel and filter paper

That part correct. But

DRT wrote:between the funnel and the rim of the decanter

is wrong.

QH77.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 20:07 Sun 01 Nov 2009

Perhaps it is to sit between the filter paper and the funnel in order to speed the flow of the wine through the paper

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:42 Sun 01 Nov 2009

AHB wrote:Perhaps it is to sit between the filter paper and the funnel in order to speed the flow of the wine through the paper

Exactly so. With the handle of the spoon pointing up, and the bowl of the spoon orientated in the narrow part of the funnel such that port won’t sit in it.

AHB’s turn.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 22:49 Sun 01 Nov 2009

One question did occur to me. October was rather a modestly busy port acquiring month for me - what volume of port did I acquire? (To the nearest 1cl.)

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:59 Sun 01 Nov 2009

AHB wrote:a modestly busy port acquiring month

Let’s call that four cases is 36L.

AHB wrote:(To the nearest 1cl.)

Wow: you measure the fill of your purchases really accurately. Please, how?

Post by **DRT** » 23:28 Sun 01 Nov 2009

4c5b = 3975cl?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 23:39 Sun 01 Nov 2009

jdaw1 wrote:Wow: you measure the fill of your purchases really accurately. Please, how?

Pedantry requires the clarification that the total volume is assumed to be as stated on the labels of the vessels purchased. Where no label is attached to the vessel, standard sizes have been assumed to be 37.5cl for a half bottle, 75cl for a bottle, 150cl for a magnum and 55,600cl for a pipa.

jdaw1 wrote:3,600cl

This is incorrect.

DRT wrote:3,975cl

Too low. Remember, this was a modestly busy month.

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:55 Sun 01 Nov 2009

Nominal volume: OK.

Ten cases = 90L?

Post by **DRT** » 00:30 Mon 02 Nov 2009

6,375cl?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 08:44 Mon 02 Nov 2009

jdaw1 wrote:Ten cases = 90L?

Still too low. This was not an average month, this was a modestly busy month. It was also the month in which I cleared out the combined cellars of my deceased father and grandfather and brought the cellar contents home.

DRT wrote:6,375cl?

Keep going

Post by **jdaw1** » 10:15 Mon 02 Nov 2009

Striving for an upper bound: fifty cases = 450L?

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 11:15 Mon 02 Nov 2009

10800cl

Post by **jdaw1** » 11:50 Mon 02 Nov 2009

25 cases: 225L?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 15:42 Mon 02 Nov 2009

jdaw1 wrote:Striving for an upper bound: fifty cases = 450L?

Upper boundary established, I added less than 50 cases to my cellar last month.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 15:45 Mon 02 Nov 2009

KillerB wrote:10800cl

Pretty close, but a little on the low side.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 15:46 Mon 02 Nov 2009

jdaw1 wrote:25 cases: 225L?

Less / fewer than this

Post by **jdaw1** » 17:31 Mon 02 Nov 2009

114L?

Post by **DRT** » 17:33 Mon 02 Nov 2009

12,300cl?

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 23:07 Mon 02 Nov 2009

12.5 cases = 11250 cl?

Post by **DRT** » 23:45 Mon 02 Nov 2009

11,100cl?

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 11:18 Tue 03 Nov 2009

11700cl

Post by **DRT** » 18:45 Tue 03 Nov 2009

11,175cl

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 21:44 Tue 03 Nov 2009

Sorry, got distracted by other things.

The answer lies between 11,700 and 12,300

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:10 Wed 04 Nov 2009

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 00:35 Wed 04 Nov 2009

12075cl?

Post by **DRT** » 01:33 Wed 04 Nov 2009

11,925?

Post by **jdaw1** » 11:15 Wed 04 Nov 2009

121.5L?

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 12:48 Wed 04 Nov 2009

11970cl

Post by **jdaw1** » 13:40 Wed 04 Nov 2009

12225cl?

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 16:53 Wed 04 Nov 2009

12060cl

Post by **jdaw1** » 17:37 Wed 04 Nov 2009

11850cl?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:36 Wed 04 Nov 2009

DRT wrote:11,925?

DRT is up

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:06 Wed 04 Nov 2009

AHB wrote:October was rather a modestly busy port acquiring month for me - what volume of port did I acquire? (To the nearest 1cl.)

AHB wrote:
DRT wrote:11,925?
DRT is up

Maybe I am a simple fellow of ascetic nature, but for the Wiseman household acquiring 159 bottles = 13Â¼ cases in one month would be more than ‟modestly busy”. Pray sir, how many busier months have you ever had?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 20:23 Wed 04 Nov 2009

jdaw1 wrote:
AHB wrote:October was rather a modestly busy port acquiring month for me - what volume of port did I acquire? (To the nearest 1cl.)
AHB wrote:
DRT wrote:11,925?
DRT is up
Maybe I am a simple fellow of ascetic nature, but for the Wiseman household acquiring 159 bottles = 13Â¼ cases in one month would be more than ‟modestly busy”. Pray sir, how many busier months have you ever had?

Port buying business is measured in the Bridgeman household not on a relative scale, but absolute one. On my absolute scale, this month was only modestly busy. Other months yet to come may prove busier.

Post by **DRT** » 21:26 Wed 04 Nov 2009

AHB wrote:
DRT wrote:11,925?
DRT is up

Can't think of one. Next one in is up...

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:23 Wed 04 Nov 2009

I also don’t have a question. Which is one of the reasons that I am giving up this game for a while. Enjoy, but without me.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 09:02 Thu 05 Nov 2009

Useless, the pair of you. It's Bonfire Night, which is traditionally wet. It's raining, so what will be the highest rainfall in the UK for 24 hrs to 21:00 on November the 5th? Location optional but it will probably be in Scotland.

Post by **DRT** » 09:04 Thu 05 Nov 2009

17mm - probably in Oban - in about 15 minutes just after the sun comes out at lunchtime.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 21:45 Thu 05 Nov 2009

55mm, somewhere in Wales or another optional part of the British Isles that is also within the UK

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 08:38 Fri 06 Nov 2009

Well done for the multitude of guesses. Actual answer was 38.6mm in Capel Curig, Wales. AHB is the closest in both amount and location.

AHB is up.