1 gallon = 3,785 liters. All other considerations aside, you should end
up with slightly over 5 bottles per gallon, 25 per 5 gallon carboy -
plus a little extra for the chef.

If you were 5 bottles short with each carboy, some possibilities might
be;
1. The 5 gal carboys were not full
2. You overfilled your bottles
3. There is always some loss due to sediment in a carboy
4. You sampled more than a little
5. All of the above - likely






Walter Venables wrote:
> Here is my problem. Last weekend I was bottling 5 gal. of Raspberry and 5
> gal. of a white blend. I like to sample as I am bottling to taste the fruits
> of my labor so to say. To my calculations I should have yielded
> approximately 25 bottles per 5 gal. but I only ended up with 20 bottles of
> each. To my calculation that is an approximate loss of 1 gal. of Raspberry
> and 1 gal of white. This was a very frustrating situation and it didn't help
> having these little guys running around me all the time as I was bottling.
> So my question is how the heck do I stop these little wine thieves from
> stealing my wine?
>
> By the way they must have come back while I was sleeping and hit me in the
> head a few times because I woke up with such a headache the next day. Any
> help would be appreciated.