Thanks for your trouble Brewer again, I am sort of experimenting at the moment.
I have 2 x 2 litres + .5l of the parsnip in bottles on the worktop, having decanted it from the demijohn. I am measuring the SG weekly, and will report. Visually (subjectively) it rather looks as though the stuff in the smaller bottle is going faster, but I'll SG them all on Friday and report further.
So far the SGs are, for all bottles : OG 13.1.07 = 180; SG 16.2.07 120.

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