bumpnzx3
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I brewed the above beer Saturday afternoon eventually it's going to get bourbon soaked oak in the secondary. I was in a hurry to get finished up because I had someplace I needed to be. I brewed, chilled, and transfered as I always do. By Sunday morning at about 5am when I got up- I already had some good bubbling going on. However- I realized that I had forgotten a step the night before. I didn't take an OG reading, which means I also didn't had water to get it up to 5gallons. By looking at the carboy I am at about 4.25 gallons. I am certainly not planning to add water now. However- I am curious about my options. From searching, I have about 3 options:
1) Leave it- I will end up with a slightly more potent beer when I am done
2) Add a little more yeast- from a few threads I read on here the higher gravity that I currently have might be hard on my kit yeast.
3) Use more water than usual when I boil/disolve the priming sugar when it comes time for bottling.
I am thinking of going with option 1 or 3 (maybe a 1/2gal of water). I most likely wouldn't have worried about it had it not been for the fact that this doesn't seem to be as violent of a fermintation as the stout I did a couple months back. Right now there's probably about 1"-1.5" of foam on top of my beer. The stout had a fair amount more than that.
Thoughts?
1) Leave it- I will end up with a slightly more potent beer when I am done
2) Add a little more yeast- from a few threads I read on here the higher gravity that I currently have might be hard on my kit yeast.
3) Use more water than usual when I boil/disolve the priming sugar when it comes time for bottling.
I am thinking of going with option 1 or 3 (maybe a 1/2gal of water). I most likely wouldn't have worried about it had it not been for the fact that this doesn't seem to be as violent of a fermintation as the stout I did a couple months back. Right now there's probably about 1"-1.5" of foam on top of my beer. The stout had a fair amount more than that.
Thoughts?