Brand new to the forum/long time lurker in need of help!
So basically i set out last week to brew an imperial IPA, and i sort of concocted my own recipe using a few different clones i like and the recipe calculator at hopville. I had set out to make a 3 gallon batch in case in came out awful...anyway, all went well during the brew, but to achieve the OG i was looking for i had to add enough water to make it a 5 gallon batch. Placed in fermenter (plastic bucket) at room temp. I had bubbles in the airlock for about two days but nothing since.
My concern is since i had intended on making a 3 gallon batch, is there not enough fermentables in the now 5 gallon brew and is that why fermentation has seemed to halt? i looked in the bucket and all looks well. Any other theories/how to i fix this? I have not yet taken another gravity reading as i was waiting until secondary time to do this.
Thanks in advance!
So basically i set out last week to brew an imperial IPA, and i sort of concocted my own recipe using a few different clones i like and the recipe calculator at hopville. I had set out to make a 3 gallon batch in case in came out awful...anyway, all went well during the brew, but to achieve the OG i was looking for i had to add enough water to make it a 5 gallon batch. Placed in fermenter (plastic bucket) at room temp. I had bubbles in the airlock for about two days but nothing since.
My concern is since i had intended on making a 3 gallon batch, is there not enough fermentables in the now 5 gallon brew and is that why fermentation has seemed to halt? i looked in the bucket and all looks well. Any other theories/how to i fix this? I have not yet taken another gravity reading as i was waiting until secondary time to do this.
Thanks in advance!