Minimising losses

[braziliain]

I've just bottled from a DJ. The DJ started with 4.5L in it and I ended up with 7 500ml bottles.

That means I lost a litre somewhere!! I really struggle starting the syphon and I reckon a bottle ended up on the kitchen floor. I can only think that the other 500ml must be in the sediment...

Any tips for minimising losses? Anyone using 1 gal DJs getting more than 7 500ml bottles?

Cheers!

 

[yeastinfection]

best tip i got was to put a piece of muslin/hop sock over the syphon trap. stops the crap going in allowing you to syphom more out.

 

[Sozzled]

I've just bottled two 5L DJ's of Turbo Cider and only managed to get 8 500ML out of both. The rest was the gunk at the bottom.

One of them came out at nearly 9% so 8 bottles of that is probably enough for now

 

[Dutto]

I normally get just under 4 litres of wine out of a 4.5 litre DJ so two possibilities spring to mind:

1. The brew isn't being left long enough for the yeast to fall out of suspension and compact on the bottom of the DJ. Given enough time and with "non-pulp" types of wine the yeast will normally compact down to a depth of +/-1cm.

2. Brewing something like the "Apple & Plum Jam Wine" in the photograph. I used Apple & Plum Jam forgotten in a cupboard for at least three years and discovered that the apple pulp floated and the plum pulp sank; so all I could do was collect the stuff in the middle. After two sessions of Finings and a wait of two months or so, I think I got less than 5 litres out of the two DJ.s.

The good news is that it turned out to be a beautiful tasting wine ... :thumb: :thumb:

... what there was of it.

 

[Bigcol49]

The good news is that it turned out to be a beautiful tasting wine ... :thumb: :thumb:

... what there was of it.

Isn't this just how it is in homebrewing and winemaking - the "ordinary" gets churned out by the gallon, yet that special beer/wine is a small batch that disappears quickly.
I suppose you can't have your beer and drink it