Mechphisto
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I just finished bottling my 5 gallon batch. I got 34 12oz bottles and 2 22oz bottles.
I calculate that to be 3.3 gallons!
When I put it in the primary fermenter (a 5gal glass carboy), I made sure to top it off to where it came up just below the bottom of the neck. Surely that's 5 full gallons.
I lost maybe a few ounces in the blowoff.
Then I secondary fermented it in a 5 gal PET carboy, and it came up to about a couple inches under the bottom of the neck. Let's say I lost a quart to the trub.
Then when I racked to the bottling bucket, I left about an inch of more sentiment, and when I finished bottling, I have less than an inch in the bucket.
At the most generous, from primary to bottle I lost 3 quarts.
How in the world did I end up with only 3.3 gallons of finished product?
Where am I wrong in my fig'urin'?
I calculate that to be 3.3 gallons!
When I put it in the primary fermenter (a 5gal glass carboy), I made sure to top it off to where it came up just below the bottom of the neck. Surely that's 5 full gallons.
I lost maybe a few ounces in the blowoff.
Then I secondary fermented it in a 5 gal PET carboy, and it came up to about a couple inches under the bottom of the neck. Let's say I lost a quart to the trub.
Then when I racked to the bottling bucket, I left about an inch of more sentiment, and when I finished bottling, I have less than an inch in the bucket.
At the most generous, from primary to bottle I lost 3 quarts.
How in the world did I end up with only 3.3 gallons of finished product?
Where am I wrong in my fig'urin'?