Mr_S_Jerusalem
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So this may seem like a dumb question, and actually everyone else no doubt has it but frankly it bugs me lol,
But every time I'm racking out of primary into secondary I'm losing like half a bottle of wine, so by the time I'm coming to bottling I've got like 5 bottles and a bit left over, unless I've topped up with some juice or something.
And I don't want to top up with water because, well then I lose flavour and alcohol right?
I don't really like doing any of that because frankly it's just diluting everything. Also I don't like topping up with some other wine, because then the wine I've just made will taste different right?
So anyway
Is there anything wrong with the primary being a 2 gallon bucket (or glass demijohn if I can find one) if I'm only fermenting 1 gallon of wine? Because then I can just put a half bottle more stuff in there, then when I come to racking it into the secondary I've got the full 6 bottles right? (maybe with a tiny bit of sediment)
Or, is there a way to work out how to make the wine slightly higher alcohol to account for having to add a pint of juice? Like would that be 1% higher? maybe even 2% ?
Basically I'm not happy with the loss at the end lol.
But every time I'm racking out of primary into secondary I'm losing like half a bottle of wine, so by the time I'm coming to bottling I've got like 5 bottles and a bit left over, unless I've topped up with some juice or something.
And I don't want to top up with water because, well then I lose flavour and alcohol right?
I don't really like doing any of that because frankly it's just diluting everything. Also I don't like topping up with some other wine, because then the wine I've just made will taste different right?
So anyway
Is there anything wrong with the primary being a 2 gallon bucket (or glass demijohn if I can find one) if I'm only fermenting 1 gallon of wine? Because then I can just put a half bottle more stuff in there, then when I come to racking it into the secondary I've got the full 6 bottles right? (maybe with a tiny bit of sediment)
Or, is there a way to work out how to make the wine slightly higher alcohol to account for having to add a pint of juice? Like would that be 1% higher? maybe even 2% ?
Basically I'm not happy with the loss at the end lol.