Ok, so I searched for an answer to my question and I'm kind of getting mixed answers in various posts so I'm going to explain my specific case.
I brewed a Hefeweisen on wednesday and fermentation is currently going strong.
My OG was 1.060, but my recipe says it should have been 1.052. When I took the reading I couldn't remember what the OG should have been so I figured it wasn't a big deal and I finished up and put it away.
Later I noticed my wort wasn't all the way to the 5 gallon mark on the bucket. By the look of it, I'm at about 4.6 gallons.
So what should I do? Leave it as is, or should I boil up and cool off enough to fill it up to the 5 gallon mark?
If I do, should I do it ASAP or could I wait until I rack it into secondary?
I brewed a Hefeweisen on wednesday and fermentation is currently going strong.
My OG was 1.060, but my recipe says it should have been 1.052. When I took the reading I couldn't remember what the OG should have been so I figured it wasn't a big deal and I finished up and put it away.
Later I noticed my wort wasn't all the way to the 5 gallon mark on the bucket. By the look of it, I'm at about 4.6 gallons.
So what should I do? Leave it as is, or should I boil up and cool off enough to fill it up to the 5 gallon mark?
If I do, should I do it ASAP or could I wait until I rack it into secondary?