Topic: Watershed
I tried some of the malt extract beer that I had added the water to after I had already made and bottled the beer with too little water. I was hoping that it would at least be OK, but it was great. It was fantastic. I am amazed.

Now I have found out that I was doing something similar to what is called "high-gravity brewing". I had accidentally calculated a recipe that was too high in fermentable stuff and sugar, and too low in water. That is what you do for "high gravity brewing", and then you add the water later. The recipes and instructions for figuring out the proportions seemed a little complicated, so I will have to save them in case I ever want to do it again on purpose.

Topic: Watershed
I boiled a pound of sugar in a gallon of water, and then went through all my bottles of thick beer and added the sugar-water in a ratio of 5 parts of thick beer to 8 parts of sugar-water.

Topic: Watershed
I just came across a recipe and instructions for beer-making that is similar to what I make, and I found out that I am not using anywhere near enough water, by more than half the amount of what I should have been using, in all my brews. That explains why everything is coming out so thick.

So I have increased the water and sugar in the Malt Extract I am making right now, (batch #5) so it is 13 liters, instead of 5, and I will have to go through all the other bottles of beer and add more water to them, along with some extra sugar to compensate for the extra water.

So, if you are looking back at the previous posts for information about brewing beer, disregard the recipes instructions for amounts of water used, and figure you have to multiply the amount of water by 2 1/3 (approximately) and possibly add more sugar.