TheCollector
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Ok my wife and I are brewing together last night. We are brewing a Russian imperial stout. Supposed to finish at %9.5... This is our second batch. First mistake.... Somehow we didn't boil enough preboiled water so when we were done brewing there was only 1 gallon of preboiled top off water. Also there was only like one and a half gallons of wort! So both top off water and wort equaled 2.5 gallons! So I set the lid on the fermenter and boil another pot of water cool it in ice bath poor it on fermenter....still 1.25 gallons short! So I do it again. Only this time I'm out of ice and half to use cold water and stir with a sanitized spoon. Finally got to 5 gallons. I pitch my dry yeast right on top then got to worrying about better aeration since its such a heavy beer. So I got the sanitized spoon and stirred vigorously... Mistake? It's been maybe 15 hours now and my wife says it is bubbling a little but not near as well as our first batch... So how boned are we here?