gundock
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Hi,
Started my first full mash brew the other day. A Dark Star festival recipee. I have ended up 5 ltrs short with my wort around 18 ltrs. The recipe was for 23 litres so I purchased 25 ltrs of the local mineral I always use. I didn't think about the fact that I would lose water in the sparge grain retaining water, the boil process or the hop residue left after. Basically I was roughly 5 ltrs down but continued with fermentation any way. Currently a couple of days into secondary fermentation stage.
My question is: Can I add 5 ltrs of heavily boiled water to the keg for racking to mix with the rest of the fermented wort? Otherwise surely I will end up with a very strong tasting and alcoholic brew.
Started my first full mash brew the other day. A Dark Star festival recipee. I have ended up 5 ltrs short with my wort around 18 ltrs. The recipe was for 23 litres so I purchased 25 ltrs of the local mineral I always use. I didn't think about the fact that I would lose water in the sparge grain retaining water, the boil process or the hop residue left after. Basically I was roughly 5 ltrs down but continued with fermentation any way. Currently a couple of days into secondary fermentation stage.
My question is: Can I add 5 ltrs of heavily boiled water to the keg for racking to mix with the rest of the fermented wort? Otherwise surely I will end up with a very strong tasting and alcoholic brew.