Two weeks ago i cooked up my first homebrew, which was an AHS English Ale kit. It's an extract kit. Unfortunately, as with all beginners i messed up (a little). I saw that tons of water had boiled off during the 60 minute boil. So i ended up adding a total of 6 gallons of water. The starting gravity of the beer was supposed to be 1.053. I got around 1.04. Unfortunately, since it was a pre-made kit i didn't have more extract to dump in and even things up. To make things more interesting, the beer spent the duration of the fermentation process without the cap on the airlock.
Last week i moved the beer from my primary carboy (6.8 gal) to the secondary. I used the auto-siphon fairly well and the process went much smoother than i thought. Then i choked off the transfer about 3 inches too early. I had at least an extra 1/2 gallon of beer in the primary and i just HAD to get it all. I couldn't restart the siphon because it was only a 2" layer. So i decided to basically take the carboy and dump it into a filter (pasta strainer w/paper towel). Then after all the crap was filtered i put it in a 1 gallon bluepoint jug and added some sugar. I gotta see if this carbonates!
Now it's two weeks after i messed up and created watery beer, i've tried it twice with my thief (hydro measurements) and as expected it has the flavor, but not enough. Kind of watery. The final gravity is supposed to be around 1.008. I now have a 1.018. So the 'beer' is like 2.5% alcohol.
My question is, after added corn sugar and bottle-conditioning, is there a possibility that the flavor will come out, or that the ABV will go up? Secondly, if the gravity ended higher than usual is the yeast ok?
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