I made me a batch of beer, folks, first one in a while, using about double the amount of extract required. What if I just add some water to each bottle, say a third, during the bottling stage? Any negative effects, besides getting weaker, less alcoholic beer? Thanks in advance, boys!
Extra water in bottles
Jun 24, 2011
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Try asking this in rec.crafts.brewing, where the focus actually is homebrewing. This newsgroup is practically dead, down to maybe a couple of posters and the occasional lurker.
Consider that adding anything except freshly fermented wort (flat beer) to a clean bottle is a potential source of infection. If you must dilute, dilute with sterile water, and dilute the whole batch before bottling. Or brew up a lower-gravity wort and use that for dilution (but remember to ferment it out first to avoid bottle bombs).
Thanks a heap (hic) !
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