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Hi Fred, Multiple everything in a one gallon recipe times 5 except the yeast. One packet of wine yeast will ferment up to five gallons of must. Meg – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I have been making wine from concentrate for about 10 years(with great results)…..I usually buy the complete kit that has everything you need, …I just specify champagne yeast etc. A couple of days ago, a nieghbor gave me about 15 lbs of fresh ripe plums. I have never used whole fruit to make wine. I have a book that shows recipes for making 1 gallon t a time…..however, I like to make at least 5 gals at a time. Does anyone have a recipe for making 5 gallons of plum wine from fresh fruit? I am sure that you don’t just multiply the 1 gallon recipe by 5. that would call for 10 campden tabs and a whole lot of tannin etc…..
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Another thing you don’t want to multiply by 5 would be spices. Not necessarily for your recipe, but something to remember in future. (I added 5x clove in an apple spice recipe once, ended up with the prettiest clove wine, but nobody wants to drink it?!) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I have been making wine from concentrate for about 10 years(with great results)…..I usually buy the complete kit that has everything you need, …I just specify champagne yeast etc. A couple of days ago, a nieghbor gave me about 15 lbs of fresh ripe plums. I have never used whole fruit to make wine. I have a book that shows recipes for making 1 gallon t a time…..however, I like to make at least 5 gals at a time. Does anyone have a recipe for making 5 gallons of plum wine from fresh fruit? I am sure that you don’t just multiply the 1 gallon recipe by 5. that would call for 10 campden tabs and a whole lot of tannin etc…..
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SCHNITZIUS), spoke out with the following whilst pondering the various ironies of life: I have been making wine from concentrate for about 10 years(with great results)…..I usually buy the complete kit that has everything you need, …I just specify champagne yeast etc. A couple of days ago, a nieghbor gave me about 15 lbs of fresh ripe plums. I have never used whole fruit to make wine. I have a book that shows recipes for making 1 gallon t a time…..however, I like to make at least 5 gals at a time. Does anyone have a recipe for making 5 gallons of plum wine from fresh fruit? I am sure that you don’t just multiply the 1 gallon recipe by 5. that would call for 10 campden tabs and a whole lot of tannin etc…..
As far as I know, that’s exactly what you do. See… you have 5 times the fluid volume, which means you need 5 times the sulfite, fruit, yeast nutrient, tannin, sugar, etc. If you didn’t multiply it cleanly, then you’d get radically different results. Think of it like this: Make a 1 gallon batch. Does it come out good? If so, the logical thing to do would be to make another gallon, right? Would you use the same recipe for both gallons? Of course, unless you wanted to try to improve on it a bit. So, let’s suppose you *do* make another, sticking to the original recipe. What would you have? You would have two gallons done by the same recipe, or simply put, one 1 gallon recipe x 2 for all ingredients. What if you wanted 5 one gallon recipes? You’d do the 1 gallon recipe five times, which means you’d use 10 campden tablets (I’d use 1 per gallon myself, but 2 isn’t outrageous), and a whole lot of tannin, etc 
I generally make 1 gallon units at present, but recently I did 2 gallons of apple. I used a basic recipe I’d done up before, added a bit of cinnamon for character, and simply doubled everything to make 2 gallons. It came out far superior to my previous attempts at apple (due largely to the added cinnamon, plus the elimination of water from the recipe), and the exact doubling of all ingredients worked perfectly. It’s about 4 days away from 2nd racking/sulf-n-sorb, and so far I couldn’t be more pleased with the results. Just for your info, plum is a very mild fruit, and for this reason it is generally a good idea to use a larger amount of fruit in lbs for plum wine than it is for some other fruit wines. Depending on the richness of the plums used, it is usually a good idea to use about 4-5 lbs of plums at least per gallon for wine. Remember, recipes for wine are just guidelines. YMMV, and experience is the best teacher! - NR "The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?" - Stephen Hawking Proud Student of All, Master of None University NightRunner’s Pages (well… *I* care!) Tweaker of genes and coder of agents! C3 Agentmaking Script Numbers 41700-41750 Reserved. http://web.infoave.net/~missy1/osiris http://web.infoave.net/~missy1/nukenorn http://members.xoom.com/Nite417 http://niter417.virtualave.net/ <–under construction
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Oh, btw, forgot the recipe link: This is another 1 gallon recipe btw, so just multiply all ingredients by five. http://www.gcty.com/NapaValley/1172/reques12.html Thank Jack Keller for this wonderful site. He is truly the master of all things fruity - NR "The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?" - Stephen Hawking Proud Student of All, Master of None University NightRunner’s Pages (well… *I* care!) Tweaker of genes and coder of agents! C3 Agentmaking Script Numbers 41700-41750 Reserved. http://web.infoave.net/~missy1/osiris http://web.infoave.net/~missy1/nukenorn http://members.xoom.com/Nite417 http://niter417.virtualave.net/ <–under construction
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I have been making wine from concentrate for about 10 years(with great results)…..I usually buy the complete kit that has everything you need, …I just specify champagne yeast etc. A couple of days ago, a nieghbor gave me about 15 lbs of fresh ripe plums. I have never used whole fruit to make wine. I have a book that shows recipes for making 1 gallon t a time…..however, I like to make at least 5 gals at a time. Does anyone have a recipe for making 5 gallons of plum wine from fresh fruit? I am sure that you don’t just multiply the 1 gallon recipe by 5. that would call for 10 campden tabs and a whole lot of tannin etc…..
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