Wort chiller leaked lowering OG!

[NativeSun]

I brewed my beer and didn't notice a small leak in my wort chiller tubes.*

It wound up adding close to a gallon of water as it was cooling down the wort, dropping my OG dramatically.

I missed my predicted OG before the leak. The beer was predicted to be 1.069 at the end and I was at 1.051.* Now after the leak my OG is at 1.038!!! (very upset)

Is there anything I can add during the primary and secondary fermentation to boost the ABV as it ferments?* I've already added the yeast.

Can I add more Gold LME? I'm making a fruity pebbles beer and will be adding the cereal and a concentrated extract to the beer when the time comes for it.* Maybe the cereal will add a very small boost to the ABV.

I'm wondering if I can heat up water, add the LME, cool it down to the wort temp and add it to it?

Please tell me some good news...

 

[d3track]

All grain or extract?

Yes you can add dme boiled up, or honey, or any other sugar.

Next time, you can re-boil to concentrate the wort.

 

[vincentAlpha]

You can add more LME if you want, I'd be debating if it is worth it given you've added a gallon of water that potentially has introduced unwanted bugs. Either way I'd let it ride, will likely still be beer.

 

[NativeSun]

All grain or extract?

Yes you can add dme boiled up, or honey, or any other sugar.

Next time, you can re-boil to concentrate the wort.

It was a partial mash.

 

[NativeSun]

You can add more LME if you want, I'd be debating if it is worth it given you've added a gallon of water that potentially has introduced unwanted bugs. Either way I'd let it ride, will likely still be beer.

I sanitized the wort chiller. I'm not worried about unwanted bugs or bacteria. My tap water is good.

 

[vincentAlpha]

I sanitized the wort chiller. I'm not worried about unwanted bugs or bacteria. My tap water is good.

In that case if you've got some LME handy it couldn't hurt to add it, though I'd plug the numbers into a calculator and see if it'll change the IBU:OG ratio much (probably), just be sure to mark it as a late addition.

 

[NateBrew]

If the water that was running through the wort chiller is chlorinated city water, then you are likely going to get a bunch of band-aid/plastic off flavors from the yeast interacting with the chlorine/chloramine.

If you are on a well, and not chlorinated, then you might consider feeding it maltose based sugars (DME/LME that has been sanitized...maybe that doesn't matter at this point). If you add simple sugars (honey, table sugar, etc) then you won't get any of the body and it will stay very thin but the alcohol will go up. Using the DME/LME will put some body back into the beer. Once it is done fermenting, you could readjust the FG with some maltodextrin powder as well (boiled of course).

I would certainly try to salvage it if there isn't any chlorine in it. At very least just to see what you can get out of it. I bet the cereal will add a fair amount of simple sugar.

Or just let finish fermenting and see if it was infected for curiosity sake, then rebrew it.

 

[ChelisHubby]

Depending on the recipe and more on when the hops were added you might just boil for a while to bring the gravity down the bitterness doesn't change much between a 60 min boil or a 90 minute boil but if you had late hops at 15 minutes or less then it changes things a lot.