Yet another newbie question from here in Kentucky.
I commenced racking my first batch of wine with one 5 gal and two 1 gal
carboys of of SG .994 Buffalo grape wine. Still cloudy but am told be
patient. I had to use all but 1/2 gal of my 2 one gal jugs of backup
wine to fill the 5 gal carboy. I expect to be short of wine on the next
racking in 6 weeks. I really don't want to add anything to the batch
other than Buffalo grape wine.
Would placing a sterile balloon in the receiving carboy, filling it
with pure water and then tying it off to achieve a full carboy work ??
I would do this before racking into the carboy and expect I would have
to do a trial racking to calculate volume needed to top off. I will
worry about getting the balloon and water out of the carboy after I
have racked the wine off to the next jug.
Please let me know what you think.