Go metric!
It has to be easier to do all this in metric, so here are some of our 2010 Syrah numbers, in english and metric:
- Must total volume: 108 gallons = 408 liters ~= 4 hL
- Must total weight: 108 gallons * 10.35 lbs/gallon = 1118 lbs = 507 kg
- Must weight/volume = 507/408 = 1.24 kg/L (water is 1 kG/L)…This is probably wrong. We started with a 25 brix juice by hydrometer, which corresponds to a specific gravity of 1.107.
- Target wine: 68 gallons = 257 L = 342+ bottles = 28+ cases
Other interesting container equivalents :
- Full barrel = 225 L = 59 gallons = 300 bottles = 25 cases
- Half barrel = 110 L = 29.3 gallon = 146+ bottles = 12+ cases
- 1/4 barrel = 50 L = 13.3 gallons = 66+ bottles = 5+ cases
- 14 gallon demijohn = 53 liters = 70+ bottles = 5+ cases
- 6.5 gallon carboy = 24.4 L = 32+ bottles = 2+ cases
- 6.0 gallon carboy = 22.7 L = 30+ bottles = 2+ cases
- 5.0 gallon carboy = 18.9 L = 25.2 bottles = 2+ cases
- 1.0 gallon jug = 3.8 L = 5 bottles
How about other additions:
- Yeast additon: 2.0 lb/1000 gallons ~= 1 g/gallon ~= 25 g/hL
- GoFerm addition: 2.5 lb/1000 gallons ~= 1.25 g/gallon ~= 30 g/hL
- FermaidK addition: 25 g/hL total in two seperate additions
- Enoferm Alpha MLB: 1 g/hL