How much do you drink while bottling?

[calvin]

I find it way to easy to put the bottling wand directly into my glass while bottling. Needless to say I usually only get 29 bottles out of a kit . Just curios if anyone else has this problem?

 

[vacuumpumpman]

I am fond of the Allinonewinepump and I can barely find time to drink while bottling, as bottling is so quick and easy. I will usually get 30 bottles and what ever is left in the carboy I will add to my glass.

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[sour_grapes]

I find it way to easy to put the bottling wand directly into my glass while bottling. Needless to say I usually only get 29 bottles out of a kit . Just curios if anyone else has this problem?

I definitely put the wand into my glass. However, my carboys are pretty large. I generally get 31 full bottles, plus a few glasses for me and a few for the missus. I haven't yet dipped into the batch enough to fail to fill the 31st bottle, but time will tell!

 

[Charlesthewino]

It really depends on how many batches I am bottling simultanously. I use the allinonewine pump and the whole house filter. I don't like to mix dark with light wine so I dump the wine left in the filter after each batch (about a pint). I also backsweeten nearly every batch so there is always some tasting along with that. So probably 2 glasses per batch. Bottling is my favorite part. I get tipsy everytime!


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[Rocky]

I don't "drink wine" while bottling. I find that doing so compromises my ability to work efficiently and accurately and could invite disaster. I do, however, perform the all important and necessary "in process, QA evaluations" as I am bottling to assure that the wine is consistent from the top to the bottom of the carboy. I would estimate that 2/3 of a bottle may be relegated to such evaluations and I normally yield about 30 bottles from a 6 gallon carboy and 25 from a 5 gallon carboy.

 

[Kraffty]

I learned pretty early on (bottling my first kit) to take it easy on those bottomless glasses during bottling. If I remember correctly I'd fill a bottle then a little splash in my glass. Repeat 28 or 29 times and next thing you know Lori is suggesting perhaps a nap would be a good idea. If you've ever woke at 6:30 on a saturday night not sure if it's AM or PM you'd revise your bottling procedures too!

But of course you have to have a glass or two...
Mike

 

[bkisel]

Nope, not me. What I do with the overidge depends on how much I get. If its just a glass or two it will get drunk that night. I'll sometimes have a 375ML bottle laying around and I'll fill it. Any overage on the 375 will again go into a wine glass and be consumed that evening.

 

[tanddc]

I would be happy to get 29 bottles out of a kit, but my wife helps and that means two mouths to feed

I did learn after the first bottling to try to hold back until towards the end. Nothing like dancing around the bottles after a couple of glasses. The good new is that with two of us it doesn't take long. I also try to rack other kits on the same night as bottling so I use some of the bottle kit to top off other carboys.

 

[Thig]

None, I am too busy to drink while bottling. Now afterwards that is another story, all those partial bottles at the end got to go somewhere.

 

[Elmer]

None.
I go from carboy to bottles (with help from AIO) very quickly and effeciently.

Once I have everything in a bottle, if there is an uneven amount in a bottle, I drink it!

But I never want to drink some and then find out that, that exact amount would have topped off and completed bottle.

 

[kevinlfifer]

I drink while labeling, makes them straighter.

 

[garymc]

I just drink what I have to if I'm tasting and backsweetening. If I overdo it, everything starts tasting pretty good. People ask me which wine is the best and I tell them the third glass.

 

[tmmii]

Usually a lot. Hard to keep track with multiple varietals and glasses being set all over the place.


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[roger80465]

It is a well known fact that failure to perform "QA" tests, as Rocky describes, guarantees failure of the finished wine. All I will say is I never bottle in the morning and I rarely have a failure.

 

[spaniel]

Drinking while bottling? Rarely. But afterward, the dregs from the bottom of the carboy have to be put to good use...

 

[Rodnboro]

Just the leftovers for me. And I hope it's at least 2 glasses to pay back for the work.


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[cimbaliw]

We generally bottle two batches of similar wine at at time. It's not uncommon to end up with a bottle of "blend" which mitigates discretionary consumption. Somewhere between Rocky, Elmer and Spaniel technique the spoils are tested, judged and otherwise dispatched with in an appropriate fashion. Short story... 2-3 glasses.

 

[Boatboy24]

I usually bottle early in the morning, so I'm drinking coffee. But I make careful preparations for the 'excess' and usually have that with lunch.

Of course, having just said that, I bottled a batch this evening. I almost always rack before bottling, whether I need to or not. So the leftovers from that racking (about a glass) were about 50% consumed during bottling. And, of course, the remnants from bottling were also consumed.

 

[terroirdejeroir]

I don't drink at all when bottling, but I purposely plan to bottle on an evening when I plan to have a few. After bottling thirty bottles from a kit batch there is usually close to a liter left over - that is the vintner's reward. I usually don't have trouble getting a volunteer to assist me with bottling as the reward is usually 2-3 glasses of very nice wine for each of us.

 

[peaches9324]

usually what is left over about a 1/2 glass