As mentioned elsewhere, I'm currently trying a three gallon batch of blueberry wine/melomel, following Terry Garey's recipe. She calls for either 2.5 lb sugar or 3 lb honey per gallon. The recipe also calls for 3.75 qts of water per gallon, regardless of whether sugar or honey is used.
Honey takes up a fair bit of space in the pot--I figured out that the 9 pounds of honey I used was roughly three quarts. Given that I was rapidly running out of room in the brewpot, I omitted about three quarts of water from the recipe.
Should I add this water back in? It seems like the result would be an excess of must--more than three gallons; probably closer to four. But I've not sulfited (must is still too damn hot) or pitched yeast or anything yet, so it'd be quite easy to add cooled boiled water to the primary. Thoughts?
Honey takes up a fair bit of space in the pot--I figured out that the 9 pounds of honey I used was roughly three quarts. Given that I was rapidly running out of room in the brewpot, I omitted about three quarts of water from the recipe.
Should I add this water back in? It seems like the result would be an excess of must--more than three gallons; probably closer to four. But I've not sulfited (must is still too damn hot) or pitched yeast or anything yet, so it'd be quite easy to add cooled boiled water to the primary. Thoughts?