Frozen must question

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.

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

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!

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

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

Joe

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