Thanks to both of you. Cheers.

Thanks Ozarks. I have come across your website already and found an American IPA recipe you blogged about on 22-Oct-2017 that looks delightful. That recipe will likely be brewed in the next few months. Thanks for your contributions to the homebrew community.

Jeff - that approach sounds solid. I think by the time I realized it and started assessing options I had already put half my stuff away while the wort was cooling. I was mentally questioning options, I was worried adding water would drop the gravity further which was already at 1.051 when the...

Thanks Jeff! Being that it was our first time, (nervous and all that) I don't think we realized we were short on water until after the wort had chilled and we were moving it to the fermentation bucket. One (of many) thing(s) I didn't do in advance was mark my BK with marks to indicate volume...

I am a brand new homebrewer - first batch was just moved to secondary fermentation yesterday. My first batch was an all-grain 16B: Oatmeal Stout recipe from here on BrewersFriend.com. I have had interest in brewing for 20 years but didn't act on that at all until 2 weeks ago I took a class...