Question: What concerns or issues do you see if adding water to the fermentation bucket about 2 days into fermentation?
(Back Story) This is my second wheat ale using Wyeast Bavarian wheat 3056. My first one got real scary in that my air lock was full of crud and I was cleaning it out every couple of hours for a day and a half. Very active yeast strain. I read up on it and it says you need to leave at least 1/3 head space in your fermentor bucket. on this batch I am at the 4gal mark (normally I fill up to the 5 gal mark). Now my hope is that after the very active part of fermentation is over I can add another gallon of water and the remaining yeast will eat up any oxygen in that water addition so I don't have any oxidation issues.
Thoughts or issues on my plan to get me back up to 5 gal that I can bottle?
(Back Story) This is my second wheat ale using Wyeast Bavarian wheat 3056. My first one got real scary in that my air lock was full of crud and I was cleaning it out every couple of hours for a day and a half. Very active yeast strain. I read up on it and it says you need to leave at least 1/3 head space in your fermentor bucket. on this batch I am at the 4gal mark (normally I fill up to the 5 gal mark). Now my hope is that after the very active part of fermentation is over I can add another gallon of water and the remaining yeast will eat up any oxygen in that water addition so I don't have any oxidation issues.
Thoughts or issues on my plan to get me back up to 5 gal that I can bottle?