Totally wrong volume...

[idiosyncronaut]

Hypothetically, if a new brewer was working on their first batch, and they had a recipe that was for 5 gallons and they actually used the wrong container to measure out volume and ended up brewing a 5 gal recipe with only ~3-3.5 gallons of water...

What exactly would happen...? To the flavor? To the extra fermentables? To the entire process?

p.s. asking for a friend... definitely not me... :cross:

 

[iskuse]

your, I mean, His alcohol percentage will be higher.

 

[iambeer]

Who knows.. maybe this friend of yours has made the best beer ever by accident. I guess you'll... I mean, he'll have to wait and taste it when it's done if there's nothing else that can be done.

 

[TyTanium]

You could just add water to get back to the 5g mark...

Other things equal, your starting gravity will be ~50% higher than planned (5g / 3-3.5g = ~50%)

 

[billl]

If your friend has just done this, he can just top off with water and be fine.

If your friend already has it in bottles, he's basically just made "Imperial" whatever-the-stye-was. If that is an IPA, that might be tasty. If you .... oops.... your friend just made an "Imperial" american wheat, I'm not sure that will be so good.

 

[idiosyncronaut]

Sorry for the late reply, forgot about this thread:

Thanks again for all the posts! I will remember this next time. Although I have to admit I'm a sucker for anything "imperial" so it wasn't all bad