So, yesterday was not a fun brew day. I will spare the details, but what was supposed to be the first warm weather brew day of the year AND a rare mid-day relaxing brew day.... turned into a murphy's law type of day. I DRASTICALLY missing my target PBG (~.020 low). My mid was totally baffled, as this has never happened to me before and I thought everything was tight in my process. I had just added a 1.5 oz FWH charge of magnum when I measured my PBG. I calculated a 1.042 on an intended 1.065 for this particular DIPA. PANICKING I proceeded to boil down for and extra 45 minutes before starting my 60 minute timer. More went wrong but here is the facts.
1. My IBU's are now WAY HIGH (calc 109. 80 from FWH alone) on a 1.062 OG IPA. Other hops were a 1 oz 10 min centennial and a 5 minute 2 oz Citra followed by a 6 oz mixed bag 30 minute hop-stand at 180deg.
2. I already pitched the yeast, which was a huge decanted starter, no going back now.
3. I usually shoot for a 5.5 Gallon fermenter volume, I pitched at 5 gallons.
So I am thinking I have two options.
1. RDWHAHB
2. Take 2lbs of extra light DME, boil in 1/2 gallon of water (if this is even possible) and add it to the fermenter, thus getting much closer to my intended OG and batch size.
I'm thinking the second option could theoretically work since fermentation has only been going for about 18 hours (it was going steady when I left for work this morning)
Thoughts?
PS, I did the math... I am 99% positive I got distracted when milling my grain Sunday night and left 3 lbs out. My hopper can only hold 3 lbs at a time.... I just made a duplicate batch in beersmith with the lower grain amount and the numbers line up almost exactly, especially if I take into account the extra 3/4 gallon of sparge water that didn't get absorbed into the 3lbs of grain that WASN'T THERE!!!!