So i bottled my very first batch an IPA last night and I ended up with alot less final product than I anticipated.
We started with a 5 gallon recipe and after fermentation stopped in the primary we moved into secondary and dry hopped. After another week we mixed the priming sugar with beer in the bottling bucket and ended up with around 3.5 gallons of beer. After bottling we ended up with about 30 12 oz beers, which was alot less than the ~50 we were expecting. Granted we spilled some and left some in each container after siphoning since this was our first attempt but wouldn't think loss would be that big.
Is this normal? Should we have added water when we moved to secondary fermenter? Just find it a little odd cause recipe came with priming sugar for 5 gallons of beer and we had 30% less than that. Thanks for the help
We started with a 5 gallon recipe and after fermentation stopped in the primary we moved into secondary and dry hopped. After another week we mixed the priming sugar with beer in the bottling bucket and ended up with around 3.5 gallons of beer. After bottling we ended up with about 30 12 oz beers, which was alot less than the ~50 we were expecting. Granted we spilled some and left some in each container after siphoning since this was our first attempt but wouldn't think loss would be that big.
Is this normal? Should we have added water when we moved to secondary fermenter? Just find it a little odd cause recipe came with priming sugar for 5 gallons of beer and we had 30% less than that. Thanks for the help