Hi Everyone,
I'm just about to bottle my first (almost) 5 gallon batch of homebrew! It's the "Twelfth Night Stout," an extract and specialty-grain recipe I got from the iBrew app.
A little background: On brew day, when I first poured the wort into the primary (I have a 6.5 gallon glass carboy), I made a rookie mistake and realized that my carboy does not have gallon markers and that I'd never poured five gallons of water into it to figure out where the five gallon line should be (I've since done this). I estimated where I should fill the carboy up to with top-off water and it turns out I didn't add enough. My wort measured out to a little less than 4.5 gallons, total. I let it sit in the primary for 17 days, and it's been in my secondary (a five gallon glass carboy) for 11 days.
I'm planning on bottling my beer after it's been in the secondary for a little over two weeks. Here's my question: When I'm boiling my priming sugar in water, should I use a half gallon of water to get my beer back up to 5 gallons, or should I just use the recommended amount of water, which I think is 16 ounces? Will my not topping off with enough water on brew day negatively affect my beer?
Also, I'm thinking of using Munson's Kreamyx for priming instead of regular corn or cane sugar. Does anyone have an opinion on the Kreamyx vs other sugars?
Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this. I've been reading these boards for while and I've been really impressed by how welcoming and helpful everyone is!
I'm just about to bottle my first (almost) 5 gallon batch of homebrew! It's the "Twelfth Night Stout," an extract and specialty-grain recipe I got from the iBrew app.
A little background: On brew day, when I first poured the wort into the primary (I have a 6.5 gallon glass carboy), I made a rookie mistake and realized that my carboy does not have gallon markers and that I'd never poured five gallons of water into it to figure out where the five gallon line should be (I've since done this). I estimated where I should fill the carboy up to with top-off water and it turns out I didn't add enough. My wort measured out to a little less than 4.5 gallons, total. I let it sit in the primary for 17 days, and it's been in my secondary (a five gallon glass carboy) for 11 days.
I'm planning on bottling my beer after it's been in the secondary for a little over two weeks. Here's my question: When I'm boiling my priming sugar in water, should I use a half gallon of water to get my beer back up to 5 gallons, or should I just use the recommended amount of water, which I think is 16 ounces? Will my not topping off with enough water on brew day negatively affect my beer?
Also, I'm thinking of using Munson's Kreamyx for priming instead of regular corn or cane sugar. Does anyone have an opinion on the Kreamyx vs other sugars?
Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this. I've been reading these boards for while and I've been really impressed by how welcoming and helpful everyone is!