Mrosenberg2
New Member
I am a first time brewer and have a question for all you veterans. I think I might have miscalculated the volume of my batch of wort as It was supposed to be 5 gallons but is only half filling a carboy. My buddy who supplied the carboy insists that it is 10 gallons but after searching online the largest size of glass carboys that I could find are 6 and 6.5 gallons. This would mean that I only have around 3 gallons of wort or so fermenting. My question is, could I add enough water to bring the wort volume to 5 gallons before I bottle it? or will this affect the beer in a negative way? I just don't want to put my priming sugar into my bottling bucket and then siphon the beer into there only to realize that there is enough priming sugar for 5 gallons and there is only 3 gallons. Exploding bottles do not sound fun to me. Thanks.