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Racked my Hop head DIPA last night to the 5g secondary, noticed its not full?? Seems like its missing a little. I started with 3 gallons in the boil, and added about 2 to fill after that. Can I add more top off water at this point or is that a no go? Also my gravity reading was about 1.014 at this point after a week of bubbling fermentation.

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Don't add water. It looks just fine and the gravity looks good. You'll get enough off-gassing that the headspace won't be an issue.

Good work.
 
Adding H2O could introduce O2 which you don't want. Likely all will be fine as is.

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