Adding Water Post-Fermentation

I brewed two beers today, using the partigyle method, and all went pretty darn well. I made a maple porter and a honey brown, and hit my numbers very well for the porter at 5.75G in the fermenter at 1.086. For the brown, I lost too much to evaporation and ended up with somewhere around 4.5 in the fermenter at 1.048.

My question is this: would it be horribly wrong to add .5 to .75 boiled/cooled water to the secondary for the brown to make up the difference in order to yield closer to 5G in the keg? Should I just chalk it up to a learning experience and be happy that I got 10-ish gallons of beer that is bubbling away? Thanks!

It seems to me like a bad idea to add water after fermentation is complete, not sure why. I much prefer full-bodied beers myself - I'd let it be and take what I got.

Yeah, I did the same thing! I think I am just going to leave it alone, as my post boil OG was right on target.

If I were goign to top oiff I'd do it before I pitch. If I were you I'd just take the 4.5 gallons and proceed as normal.

Now that you've pitched...I wouldn't do it...I'd much rather have 4.5 gallons of good beer (at my numbers) than 5 gallons of diluted beer....