Too Much Water

Hi,

First post and shame its due to a stupid mistake

Rather than adding 23L (5 Gallons) to my Woodfordes Great Eastern Ale kit i have added 25L (5.5 Gallons).

The beer has already started fermenting as i only realised after i added the yeast. How badly will this batch be affected? and is there anything that can be done?? Adding additional Malt Extract etc?.

One thing i will say is ive wont be brewing late at night again as concentration levels are low

Sounds like you will be getting more beer than you were planning on

And just a tad lower ABV, probably not noticeable.

It'll still be great!

I have gone over my target finished wort a few times before and the beer still turned out tasty! Recently I tried to help my sis with a yard sale and brew an extract Irish Red in the same morning. With all the rushing around, I didn't add enough fermentables and used too much water. The beer turned out being very light in taste, and of course lower in ABV (3.1%). It was still great! My mess-up was bigger than just ending up with .5 gal more volume. Your beer will still turn out great!

You likely won't notice much of a taste difference, and you'll be able to drink a few more of them before getting loaded. Sounds pretty good to me!

I usually add .25 gallons more to account for the loss I'll take with the trub on the bottom when I secondary, and never have a problem. End up usually hitting my 55 bottle mark spot-on, +/- a few bottles.

I just had about the same overrun on a robust porter. It tastes great, probably just not as robust. Brew on!