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I've drank about 7 of them. They taste a little darker and still very carbonated but tastes decent.

Is it possible to reduce this by leaving it in/out of the fridge longer?

I added 5 oz of sugar which was meant for 5 gallon batch. (mine was 3 gallons)

Update to this thread. I bottled the beer about 2 1/2 weeks ago. I added priming sugar with a full pot of water boiled, cooled, and bottled. Refrigerated one bottle today and tried it. Hard to pour without creating a ton of head. Tasted like a darker red ale. Not bad. Any reason as to why...

Thanks for the help! Much appreciated!

If I add water will it water the beer down and ruin it? Will it screw up the yeast?

A little bitter. Not quite sure how to explain it. Decent flavor just a little tangy

When it was in the primary fermenter (bucket), it was just below the 3 gallon mark.

At that SG do you think I would screw up the batch adding water to get it near 5 gallons or should I leave it alone?

I have an idea by looking. It's a plastic carbon - better bottle. I just checked the SG it was 1.020. Now I'm baffled even more

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/irish-red-ale.html

6 lbs of liquid malt extract

I will take another reading here in a bit. Question on that - after sanitizing and rinsing, should I let it dry or is it ok to make contact with the wort when my thief and hydrometer is wet? The recipe was a kit from Midwest supplies for Irish red ale. First steeped grains for 30 min at 155...

Ha! Well it almost black and it's supposed to be a darker red. I did take a huge sample when I first made a reading and didn't return it to the bucket, In a coffee thermos ( poured) because I didn't know any better at the time. And not positive if the hydrometer was off the bottom. I am going...

My first reading was 1.054 does that sound right? I am definitely going to have a checklist the next time I do this!