Beniskickbutt
New Member
Is it okay to add more sugar water during fermentation in primary?
I think I should be ok but wanted some reassurance from you seasoned vets.
Here's what I did...
I mixed some welch 100% natural concord grade concentrate and sugar water in my 6 gallon primary fermentation bucket. Got to an initial reading of 12% abv (I should really start using SG )
Fermented for 5 days and got down to about 5%~ so far on the reading (so far so good).
I then noticed my bucket was only filled to 4gallons rather than the 5 needed to fill my carboy. I panicked since I had read its bad to leave space in a carboy.
Thinking quickly to fix my shortage, I boiled a little over half gallon of sugar water at 12% abv and let it cool and tossed it into my primary. I then boiled another little over half at 13%~ abv and tossed this into my primary as well.
Has anyone ever done something similar? I'm hoping my fermentation isn't dying off and i'll just end up with a batch of overly sugary juice.
I think I should be ok but wanted some reassurance from you seasoned vets.
Here's what I did...
I mixed some welch 100% natural concord grade concentrate and sugar water in my 6 gallon primary fermentation bucket. Got to an initial reading of 12% abv (I should really start using SG )
Fermented for 5 days and got down to about 5%~ so far on the reading (so far so good).
I then noticed my bucket was only filled to 4gallons rather than the 5 needed to fill my carboy. I panicked since I had read its bad to leave space in a carboy.
Thinking quickly to fix my shortage, I boiled a little over half gallon of sugar water at 12% abv and let it cool and tossed it into my primary. I then boiled another little over half at 13%~ abv and tossed this into my primary as well.
Has anyone ever done something similar? I'm hoping my fermentation isn't dying off and i'll just end up with a batch of overly sugary juice.