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I've got a number of grapes this year and wanted to try my hand at some homemade wine. I don't believe i'll have enough for a 5 gallon batch, however all i have is 5 gallon equipment. If i need to top it off, what's the best thing to use? Can I just use something like Welch's grape juice...

This is my first wine making expedition, and i started with about 15 lbs of blackberries and mixed up almost a 5 gallon batch. I let it sit for a week and tonight just transferred to a demijohn - i actually think my demijohn might be closer to 6 gallons in size, and because i left some of the...