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
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!
1 pint (imp) = 20 fl ozs= 1 1/4 lbsIn 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
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