Why not make the kit as called for in the instructions. Then rack into your
5 gallon carboy plus a 1 gallon bottle.

Bill Frazier
Olathe, Kansas USA


"Adam Preble" > wrote in message
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>I have a problem here where I have a kit that makes 6 gallons of wine,
>which won't fit in my secondary fermenter. It will all fit in the primary,
>so my plan is to mix the entire volume as normal in the primary fermenter,
>but only move over 5 gallons into the secondary. There are a lot of
>disclaimers about making 5 gallons of wine from the mix. My impression of
>all of them is that is using the full kit with only 5 gallons of starting
>water. I think I'd be in the clear here if I do it this way. Am I asking
>for serious trouble?