Sweet Stout Mishap

[bankeny]

A while back I bought some home brew supplies off craigslist. Included were four kits from morebeer. The first three were brewed and I brought the last one, a sweet stout, over to a buddies house to brew.

I grabbed all the ingredients left from the craigslist purchase assuming they all belonged to the stout. After brewing we took a gravity reading of 1.070 instead of the estimated 1.045. Turns out I had an extra three pound bag of light DME that ended up in the brew.

So... what are we going to end up with? Calculations in qbrew say we'll have a 7% ABV stout instead of the intended 4.5%

Should we proceed... or should something be altered when it goes into the secondary?

It's been in the primary for one week now and is happily fermenting.

 

[sweed]

You'll just have almost an imperial sweet stout. I say let it be and enjoy the higher abv!

 

[SMc0724]

Agree with sweed. IMHO: It's certainly worth keeping, but not worth trying to fix it!! Enjoy, live and learn.

 

[duboman]

You'll just have almost an imperial sweet stout. I say let it be and enjoy the higher abv!

I agree, because the hop schedule was not raised as well to balance out the additional malts the beer will taste sweeter and of higher ABV.