Made 5 gallon batch for 6 gallon recipe

Just brewed an all-grain pale ale recipe yesterday. Took my SG and it was way higher then the recipe says it should be. Mine was 1.063. Recipe says it should be 1.054. I then realized I made a bone head move and brewed for a 5 gallon batch instead of the recipe calling for a 6 gallon batch. Used Notty for the yeast and the airlock has not started to bubble.

I'm looking for feed back on which of three options I should go with:
1. Add a gallon of boiled and cooled (70 degrees) water to the fermentor now.
2. wait until primary fermentation has finished then add the water.
3. let it go and see what I get.

Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Joe

#3

I am a let it go brewer. Every time I tinker with something already done I make it worse. You will have a different beer than what you started out to make but it still should be good.

It's just going to be a little bigger beer. Little different taste, but probably not a big deal. Let it go.

+1
let it go man. why risk it?

how long ago did you pitch? To me nottingham seems slow to start often

I agree. Let it go!

+1 Let it go. Call it an imperial pale ale!