Just bottled my 1st brew after a 30 year break.

[Jeff53]

I've just bottled a Coopers Draught plus a pack of Enhancer 2 added.

Tastes good, but ABV will be 5.76% by my calculations.  1050 SG, 1010 FG + Carbonation drops. 

Would it be detrimental if I added 2litres extra water to my next brew.

Looking forward to many special brews.

Jeff 

[Malter White]

Your original gravity reading looks high. Did you make it up to 23 litres?

[Otto Von Blotto]

Yeah in 23 litres the OG would be about 1.038 from those ingredients. Dropping the volume down would increase the OG. 

[Malter White]

In the absence of a response from Jeff, so far, I wonder if he's made his brew to only 21 litres and hasn't included the 2 litres of hot water used to dissolve the ingredients in his total?

[Otto Von Blotto]

Either that or the extract wasn't fully dissolved and gave a false high reading. 

[Jeff53]

Thanks for the replies.

I did use 23 litres of water and bottled 29 750ml and 1 350ml bottles. It could be that the ingredients were not fully dissolved.  The sample was taken from the bottom and was very cloudy.

[Lab Cat]

OG is definitely out, a kit and BE2 won't get that high. It'll be around 4.3%. Always give your wort a really good stir during mixing and after topping up to 23l. 

[Otto Von Blotto]

Yeah from the actual OG of 1.038-39 to  the 1.010 FG it'd be about 4.1-4.2% ABV in the bottles. 

A useful figure to remember is 1.038-39, as pretty much any 1.7kg kit plus 1kg dry fermentables will result in that SG when mixed to 23 litres. It's a good thing about extract brewing, you can easily calculate the OG from the grams of sugar per litre. 

Edited September 10, 2019 by Otto Von Blotto