Adding water to secondary

[SSD]

When preparing to move primary to secondary, if my volume is short of my desired 5 gallons, is it ok to add a little clean water to my secondary carboy then siphon in the primary.

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

Don't add water after fermentation has started, it's not a good idea. Most of the time you'll end up with less that five gal after primary due to trub loss. You can always adjust future recipe size to account for this. I usually put 5.25 gal in the fermenter if I want to finish with 5 gal.

 

[SSD]

Thank you for quick response, thats kind of what I figured.

 

[Yooper]

You can do that, but I wouldn't unless the beer needed more water.

What I mean is this- taste the beer. And ask yourself if it would be better watered down a little. Almost always, I think the answer would be no!

 

[dcp27]

unless you need that primary for something, you could always just not secondary, its not a necessity