gallagherman
Well-Known Member
To ultimately end up with 5 gallons of beer I bump up the wort to 5.25ish gallons when I pitch the yeast because I have been losing a few inches of water during fermentation. I thought about it and noticed that this is diluting all the sugars in the wort, and my OG will be lower than if it were only in 5 gallons. So... the OG is for 5.25 and after fermentation the FG will be for 5 gallons. When calculating the ABV won't the actual % be higher than what I calculate because the OG is falsely low? Does anyone know that the heck i'm talking about?