adding water after fermentation?

Can water be added at the secondary before a dry hop to bring my volume where it needs to be to for the recipe. ofc i am talking about adding boiled spring or distilled water here.
Thanks,
Chris

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You certainly could. How much water are we talking about? If your adding a gallon of H20 that's 20% of your total batch size which would definitely alter the character of the finished brew. With your brew being an IPA and dry hopping, if your adding .5gal I doubt if you'd notice that much. I had a problem with lower than expected batch volumes on my first few brews. Start with 5.25gal in your primary next time to account for trub loss and your good to go.

Maybe taste the beer first and see if it can benefit from a little watering down first. Sometimes I've needed (and wanted) to, other times I've tasted and thought, "Well, this beer is great, I just wish I had more of it", and left it alone.

It's nice to have 5 finished gallons, but I've been happy with 4 sometimes after dryhopping!

Great! The reason I asked was because I brewed Lakewalk last weekend and my 90 min boil turned to a 120. Also broke my hydrometer right before taking the gravity reading I will taste before adding. Thanks to all.
-C

YooperBrew said:

Maybe taste the beer first and see if it can benefit from a little watering down first. Sometimes I've needed (and wanted) to, other times I've tasted and thought, "Well, this beer is great, I just wish I had more of it", and left it alone.

It's nice to have 5 finished gallons, but I've been happy with 4 sometimes after dryhopping!

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I have put too much water in the boil in the past so I can finish with 5 1/2 gallons at the end, only to have what I thought was watered down brew. I have learned it is better to end up with a little less than having to finish 5 gallons of watered down beer.