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It is generally a bad practice to add ice cubes to your wort as they can pick up bacteria while freezing. Usually something settles in an ice tray or there is something in a commercial setup, etc. OK to eat, but leaving it in a sugar solution for a week with yeast can cause a bad batch of beer.

As to your question. your OG should be calculated to a given volume. So if you use extract, and are suposed to start the ferment at 5 gallons, then adding ice and water to a partial boil til it gets to 5 gallon you should be fine. I'd still be concerned about ice and it possibly carrying bacteria, but other than that, as long as your final volume is about what you were supposed to have, adding water or ice wouldn't change OG

CSS

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Don't make the ice in an ice cube tray.

I bought zip lock containers. The night before I'll boil a bunch of water. While the water is boiling, I'll soak the containers and covers in sanitized solution. Allow water to cool a bit, pour in the water, and seal. Place in freezer overnight.

During the brew, take out containers. As long as the sides melt, the block of ice will fall right out.

Hint: Use the stirring spoon to gently drop the ice block into the wort. Otherwise you'll get wort on your ceiling like I did.

FrostyJR

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And now I am worried... Why couldn't I have read this post Saturday before I used ice from the freezer tray to cool down my Irish Stout wort? Guess I will just cross my fingers and hope for the best. We'll call this part of the learning process.

ZombieBrew83

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RDWHAHB

I made this mistake on my first batch and it fermented just fine without getting infected. Using ice directly from your freezer is not a guaranteed infection, it just increases the risk. Proper sanitizing practices are all about mitigating this risk. You'll most likely be fine!

glenn514

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I have used store-bought ice on a couple of brews, to no ill effect, but I did check over the bag carefully before I bought it.

glenn514

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brumanchu

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I use 3 20ounce bottles that I've frozen, I soak them in a large bowl of starsan with a lid for a couple of minutes. I'll pull the bottles out and place on a sanitized surface and let them drain for a few minutes, transfer the starsan out of the bowl and put the bottles back in the bowl. Cover the bowl with the lid again and throw the bowl back in the freezer. When I get the wort below a hundred degrees or so I'll add the sanitized frozen bottles to the wort with sanitized tongs. This along with my wort chiller helps drop the last 20 or 30 degrees much more quickly.

dstranger99

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Same here, but I also use a 1/2 gallon frozen water bottle, and drop it right in the hot wort. I just rub them down with Starsan first, then drop them right in.......

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