Like a beginner dummy, I didn't top off pale ale before fermenting. Now I'm a gallon short. Could I boil a gallon of water to remove the oxygen, cool it down and add to the bottling bucket to bring my volume up to 5 gallons like the kit intended?
tennesseean_87 said:This is silly. You can certainly do that. Just use a gallon to mix your priming sugar at bottling. Let it cool a bit before you throw it in the sanitized bottling bucket and then rack on top of it.
Snisup said:Are you worried about the lost volume or the effect on the beer?
When I was doing kits I would intentionally leave out the top up water because I only had 5g carboys. I always liked the outcome. Then again I'm a quality over quantity type of guy.
I say leave it be and call it an IPA.
Snisup said:Good idea. I'd give it a chance, at least.
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