Well I decided to take the plunge into homebrewing with a starter brew kit and an IPA recipe package picked up from my LHBS. Basically what it consisted of was 6.6 lbs. pale LME, 3 oz. Cascade Hops, 1 lb. Crushed Victory and 8 oz. crushed Crystal 60L for steeping. I adjusted the hop schedule and boiling schedule a bit and used less Victory but I kept everything pretty much the same.
Here's what I ended up working with after adjustments:
hopville . "First Homebrew (IPA)" American IPA Recipe
I wanted to do a full boil, but since I didn't have a large enough pot I had to settle for a 3.5 gallon boil. Everything went great through the whole process, until it was time to pour the wort into the primary and pitch the yeast. I didn't account for evaporation loss, so I cooled the wort and added ~1 gallon of cool water then pitched the yeast and tucked it away to do it's work. It wasn't until I was checking the temp on the fermenter a day later that i noticed there was actually only about 3.25 gallon of beer in the fermenter. Like a noob I never checked to see how much wort I actually ended up with and just pitched without topping off with clean water for a full 5-gallon batch.
I guess basically I'm wondering how will this effect the end product? Essentially I used ingredients enough for a 5 gallons in a 3 gallon batch. Clearly I won't have an IPA anymore, maybe more like a Barleywine? BTW OG was 1.056 but I didn't know to take OG at ferment temp and the wort was at like 80-90*F when I took the OG. When I recalculate the recipe to the batch and boil size I actually used, it claims my OG should have been around 1.078.
Thanks for any help.
Here's what I ended up working with after adjustments:
hopville . "First Homebrew (IPA)" American IPA Recipe
I wanted to do a full boil, but since I didn't have a large enough pot I had to settle for a 3.5 gallon boil. Everything went great through the whole process, until it was time to pour the wort into the primary and pitch the yeast. I didn't account for evaporation loss, so I cooled the wort and added ~1 gallon of cool water then pitched the yeast and tucked it away to do it's work. It wasn't until I was checking the temp on the fermenter a day later that i noticed there was actually only about 3.25 gallon of beer in the fermenter. Like a noob I never checked to see how much wort I actually ended up with and just pitched without topping off with clean water for a full 5-gallon batch.
I guess basically I'm wondering how will this effect the end product? Essentially I used ingredients enough for a 5 gallons in a 3 gallon batch. Clearly I won't have an IPA anymore, maybe more like a Barleywine? BTW OG was 1.056 but I didn't know to take OG at ferment temp and the wort was at like 80-90*F when I took the OG. When I recalculate the recipe to the batch and boil size I actually used, it claims my OG should have been around 1.078.
Thanks for any help.