Got to thinking today, the recipes i've followed so far have called for adding water until the "total volume" is a certain amount. With that thought, my fermenting volume has always been 5 gallons because i have a measure line on the bucket.
When the wort is boiling on the stove there are other things in there like DME, hops, whatever else. If i start with 2 gallons boiling, add the ingredients as called for, then follow the directions by interpreting "add water until total volume is 3.5 gallons (or whatever the recipe calls for, just a number here)" do i take into account that the other ingredients have added to the total volume? Or do i add another 1.5 gallons on top of the original 2 gallons to achieve 3.5 gallons?
Sorry for the rambling, it's just difficult to describe what i'm thinking right now.
When the wort is boiling on the stove there are other things in there like DME, hops, whatever else. If i start with 2 gallons boiling, add the ingredients as called for, then follow the directions by interpreting "add water until total volume is 3.5 gallons (or whatever the recipe calls for, just a number here)" do i take into account that the other ingredients have added to the total volume? Or do i add another 1.5 gallons on top of the original 2 gallons to achieve 3.5 gallons?
Sorry for the rambling, it's just difficult to describe what i'm thinking right now.