Your problem might be in the carbonation stage. When you change the amount
of beer you must also change the amount of priming suger(corn) to reflect
the volume change. Easy soloutuion: dump out the .5-.7 gallons before
bottling and priming. Yes the beer might be too watery, but at least it will
be carbonated propperly.

"John Doe" <john@doe.com> wrote in message
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> I just brewed up my third ever batch. It's a lager. I made a little
> booboo, I added a too much water to the primary fermenter. So
> now, instead of ~5 gallons, I've probably got close to 5.5-5.7 gallons.
> I'm a little concerned about the beer coming out too watered down. Will
> this be a problem? Anything I can do about it?
>
> Thanks,
> jd
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