Missed My Barley Wine OG

[darrenbrews]

I'm pissed at myself for making all efforts to make my first barley wine a good one, with extra attention to my yeast starter, filtered water, sanitation, and I thought if this one went well I could move onto all-grain. But then in the end I got careless when adding water and I missed my OG.

OG should have been 1.082 but I ended up with 1.077. How much will this affect my beer?

-Darren

 

[peterj]

Not very much at all. I wouldn't worry about 5 gravity points, that's close enough. It will end up with just a little bit less alcohol but that's probably it. You won't even notice it.

 

[crawforc3]

I wouldn't worry about it either. You're still looking at a high 8%ish abv.

 

[Complete_Amateur]

Echo the above. You're off by only ~6%.