On Aug 30, 4:33 pm, Tater > wrote:
> On Aug 29, 7:27 pm, pp > wrote:
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> > On Aug 29, 4:13 pm, Tater > wrote:
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> > > On Aug 28, 11:51 am, pp > wrote:
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> > > > On Aug 27, 2:40 pm, Tater > wrote:
> > > > > the reciepies i see call for 3-6 pounds of plums PER gallon, then up
> > > > > to 3/4 of a gallon of water
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> > > > I'd say your math - how do you get 1/5 gal with 3-6 lbs of plums + 3/4
> > > > gal of water??
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> > > > Pp
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> > > nope thats my puncuation, should be 1.5 gallons
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> > Well most of the plums will be solids, no? The original math assumes a
> > yield of ~1/4 gal of juice out of 3-6 lbs of plums, that seems pretty
> > reasonable to me, certainly more than additional 3/4 gal.
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> recipies call out for fruit to be added to primary, not just juice.
> i'll guess that this is why I have a 10 gallon primary for a 6 gallon
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Yes but pretty much all fruit recipes I've seen give you the expected
resulting volume in terms of the finished wine - for example Jack's
recipes usually give you 1 gal of wine. You base the size of the
primary on that.

Pp