How much Wine

[fivebk]

I have 6 gallons of must in my fermenter sitting in my kitchen.

My question is this :

How much wine can I expect to get from this must?????

BOB

 

[magpiemini]

My guesses, 5.5 unless you still have most of the skins in the must, then 5, maybe more if you press well.

 

[Runningwolf]

I agree witht the above post. You can expect 5 750 ml bottles from each finished gallon.

 

[whackfol]

If you are fermenting a red on the skins, I expect you will yield between 65 & 70% of your pre press volume. This will depend on the grape variety, how hard you press and how well you rack and settle. If it is a juice or white, you should not lose a gallon. Again this depends on how careful you are during racking.

 

[altavino]

it depends on the grape , 6 gallons of red must will produce between 2.5 and 3.5 gallons of wine post racking off the gross lees.

i'm a metric guy and I plan on 1 litre of wine for 2 kilos of grapes , and thats also how I estimate my additions of additives as many fermentation stage additives give you a grams / litre (or grams per hectolitre) guidline and this guideline is an estimate of finnished wine.

 

[Arne]

It also depends on how much sampling goes on before bottling, and you have to watch out for them theiving wine gremlins. LOL, Arne.

 

[southlake333]

+1 to gremlins...or evaporation.

 

[Rocky]

If you mean must composed of crushed grapes, I am guessing a 2/3 yield or 4 gallons. That has been my experience.

 

[fivebk]

Out of 12 gallons of must ( crushed grapes ) After pressing I ended up with just a hair over 10 gallons. I pressed with SG at 1.020 put the juice back into the fermenter and let it go till 1.000 . today I racked to secondary and will let it set for awhile.