MRD911
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Hello,
My first post and first brew
So my brew kit came with a choice of a Coopers Ingredient Kit. I chose the Canadian Blonde Ale. I started my brew yesterday thinking I was all ready. I boiled and cooled 3 gallons of water and added to fermenter. I then boiled another 3 gallons of water and added the 3.3 lbs LME and 1lb DME that came with the kit. Cooled and added to fermenter. I screwed up - thought more water would boil off - I have about 5.75 gallons of wort in the fermenter. So I was looking at the instructions and couldn't tell if I was supposed to add one of the dextrose packages. Two packages came with the kit - 8oz of Dextrose and 5 oz of Dextrose (labeled Priming). I read on through and it said the 8oz was used for bottling, so I did not add this in the boil.
It has been about 24 hours now and the airlock is now bubbling. (I pitched the yeast at 68 degrees and think I sanitized everything properly).
Is this going to be too watered down? Was I supposed to add the 8oz dextrose? Should I lightly boil and add to the fermenter? Or add more DME? Or just let it be?
MRD
My first post and first brew
So my brew kit came with a choice of a Coopers Ingredient Kit. I chose the Canadian Blonde Ale. I started my brew yesterday thinking I was all ready. I boiled and cooled 3 gallons of water and added to fermenter. I then boiled another 3 gallons of water and added the 3.3 lbs LME and 1lb DME that came with the kit. Cooled and added to fermenter. I screwed up - thought more water would boil off - I have about 5.75 gallons of wort in the fermenter. So I was looking at the instructions and couldn't tell if I was supposed to add one of the dextrose packages. Two packages came with the kit - 8oz of Dextrose and 5 oz of Dextrose (labeled Priming). I read on through and it said the 8oz was used for bottling, so I did not add this in the boil.
It has been about 24 hours now and the airlock is now bubbling. (I pitched the yeast at 68 degrees and think I sanitized everything properly).
Is this going to be too watered down? Was I supposed to add the 8oz dextrose? Should I lightly boil and add to the fermenter? Or add more DME? Or just let it be?
MRD