leaking wine pouch, can still be used?

[Zurd]

Hi all, I bought and received a leaking wine pouch yesterday. I probably lost about 1 liter out of the 5.5 liters that was in it (I haven't calculated precisely yet). I was wondering if I could still brew it? It is supposed to ferment in 23 liters with water, so maybe I could fill it up to only 18 liters or so?

And maybe use a bit less of the agents like chitosan, kieselsol, etc. Anyone tried it before?

 

[RPh_Guy]

That should be fine. Scale the water, sulfite, and sorbate (if applicable)

No need to scale the fining agents or yeast.

Bummer. I would contact the place where you got it and try to get a refund or something. Take photos.

 

[Zurd]

Thanks for the info! I thought so that it could still be reused by just scaling down (except fining agents and yeast). It's going to be a smaller batch but I don't like waste

No worry about the refund, they are sending me a complete kit free so I can just use what I have left. First time I'm receiving one that is damaged after many many orders but these things happens.

 

[grampamark]

When I saw the thread title, my first thought was that the bag in a Franzia box was leaking, and the OP should just stick a straw in it and consider it an adult Capri Sun.

 

[Zurd]

It's fermenting right now, I only lost one liter out of 7, so only 1/7th, it's not much, I don't think it will make much of a difference. Instead of 23 liters, I made a batch of around 20 liters.

 

[Zurd]

It's a success! I bottled them about a week ago and everyone love it, thanks all for everything, I now know what to do if that ever happens again!