I have just taken delivery of a drum of frozen must weighting 384 lbs.
It is going to take a few days to thaw out and my question is "will it
all fit into one 45-gallon primary fermenter and allow enough room for
punching down the cap and expansion or should I scramble to borrow a
second vessel?"

Get a second vessel. A 5g pail of frozen must weighs about 45lbs, so
I'd guess you have 40+ gallons of must. This is too much to expect to
ferment in a 45g primary. I fill my primaries to no more than 70% of
capacity to allow for expansion.
RD

Get a second vessel. A 5g pail of frozen must weighs about 45lbs, so
I'd guess you have 40+ gallons of must. This is too much to expect to
ferment in a 45g primary. I fill my primaries to no more than 70% of
capacity to allow for expansion.
RD

Thank you for the advice.

Thank you for the advice.

Easy way to remember - "a pint's a pound, the world around". So you
have about 48 gallons of must (assuming the 384 doesn't include the
shipping container - if it does, subtract it out of the weight, and
divide by 8 for the number of gallons.

Rob

Easy way to remember - "a pint's a pound, the world around". So you
have about 48 gallons of must (assuming the 384 doesn't include the
shipping container - if it does, subtract it out of the weight, and
divide by 8 for the number of gallons.

Rob

I love that little saying "a pint's a pound the world around."

On 1 Apr 2005 09:11:16 -0800, "Rob" >
wrote:

>Easy way to remember - "a pint's a pound, the world around". So you
>have about 48 gallons of must (assuming the 384 doesn't include the
>shipping container - if it does, subtract it out of the weight, and
>divide by 8 for the number of gallons.
>
>Rob

"Jim" > wrote in message
...
>I have just taken delivery of a drum of frozen must weighting 384 lbs.
> It is going to take a few days to thaw out and my question is "will it
> all fit into one 45-gallon primary fermenter and allow enough room for
> punching down the cap and expansion or should I scramble to borrow a
> second vessel?"

Didn't it come in a 55 gallon drum? Just ferment it in that.

Tom S

"Jim" > wrote in message
...
>I have just taken delivery of a drum of frozen must weighting 384 lbs.
> It is going to take a few days to thaw out and my question is "will it
> all fit into one 45-gallon primary fermenter and allow enough room for
> punching down the cap and expansion or should I scramble to borrow a
> second vessel?"

Didn't it come in a 55 gallon drum? Just ferment it in that.

Tom S

It came in a 45 gallon drum in a large plastic bag and I assumed that
I should remove it from the bag and pute it into a 45 gallon plastic
fermenter.

"a pint's a pound, the world around".

Hate to have to correct you but that just isn't so!!!!!! It might be in the
US but not "the world around" -- thank goodness!

1 pint (imp) = 20 fl ozs= 1 1/4 lbs

In imperial measures it is easier to remember that a gallon (imp) of water =
10 lbs

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I knew that was coming, it's not so in Canada, either...

Joe

>
> Hate to have to correct you but that just isn't so!!!!!! It might be
in the
> US but not "the world around" -- thank goodness!
>
> 1 pint (imp) = 20 fl ozs= 1 1/4 lbs
>
> In imperial measures it is easier to remember that a gallon (imp) of
water =
> 10 lbs
>
> --
> Trevor A Panther
> In South Yorkshire, England
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Jim wrote:

> I have just taken delivery of a drum of frozen must weighting 384 lbs.
> It is going to take a few days to thaw out and my question is "will it
> all fit into one 45-gallon primary fermenter and allow enough room for
> punching down the cap and expansion or should I scramble to borrow a
> second vessel?"

I have found that 100 pounds of crushed grapes are about the right amount
for a 15 gallon fermentation vessel. So, a 45 gallon vessel may not give
you enough room for 384 pounds of must.

Once again thank you for the information.

And I always thought it was an English saying! I mean, the empire went
the world around, so, I figured...

So let me rephrase - a pint's a pound the world around, except where it
isn't.

Rob