BobF
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I'm doing my first juice pails this year. I received 2 ea 6g Chilean Malbec and Syrah.
They fermented well and are just now in carboys.
So, what level do you normally end up with from 6g pails? I expected these to be short of filling the 6g Italian carboys, but these ended up 1-3/4 to 2" below the shoulder ridge. And I'm a pretty tight racker ...
Is this the norm, or was I short juice? The buckets were a bit below the top when I opened, so I was suspicious this might happen.
I'm going to end up putting each variety into a 6g + 3g + smaller jugs/bottles to keep from adding gallons of other wine to top off.
They fermented well and are just now in carboys.
So, what level do you normally end up with from 6g pails? I expected these to be short of filling the 6g Italian carboys, but these ended up 1-3/4 to 2" below the shoulder ridge. And I'm a pretty tight racker ...
Is this the norm, or was I short juice? The buckets were a bit below the top when I opened, so I was suspicious this might happen.
I'm going to end up putting each variety into a 6g + 3g + smaller jugs/bottles to keep from adding gallons of other wine to top off.