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I have lots of mint that needs to be weeded out, so I decided to make a wine from it. I looked at Terry Garey, and decided on Jack Keller's recipe - http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques55.asp

First off, I couldn't even get 5 gallons into a 6 gallon better bottle primary (I'll use glass as secondary). I should have been able to use 5.5 gallons by his recipe, but I was like a pint short of 5 gallons.

Hubby ran my 15 lbs of sugar vs 5 gallons on his brew software and predicted something like 1.134, which is what I got a reading of. Aye yi yi... I guess I will let it ferment until it can't ferment any more.

So the sugar took up space... if I had followed Garey's recipe, the situation would have been worse. Why am I so short on water? The one time I actually follow a recipe, and this is what happens!

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Okay, I realized last night that I was slightly confused about Garey's recipe. It would have been 12 lbs. Still, that is high IMO, and probably only needed 9-10 lbs with more water. [Edit: I was right last night and wrong this morning. I checked, and Garey uses 2 lbs with fruit, but the mint is still 3 lbs]

Well, they say life is too short to drink bad beer/wine/homebrew, but I think in this case, life is too short with not enough carboys to see this one though. Think I'll keep a gallon and toss the rest unless someone talks me into keeping it.