LOW OG

[Rumtumtum]

Hi, I have just started homebrewing and have made a few extract brews.

Today, I decided to use up some left over ingredients and made a porter. I made up a recipe and off I went. All was going well until I took the OG. It was 1032 but is supposed to be around 1057! When I went back over my notes I realized that I had made up the recipe with 2kg of DME but had only used 1kg.

To make matters worse I had already pitched the yeast before I took the reading so I could not just reboil and add more DME.

The ABV will now only be around 3.0%

Is there anything I can do to get the ABV up?

Would boiling up some sugar and chucking it in work?

I don't have any more malt extract only a 500g bag of Muntons Wheat Spraymalt. I thought about doing half Wheat extract and half Dextrose but I am not sure if adding the Wheat Extract would make the porter taste weird?



Any ideas?

 

[leondz]

Dechlorinate about 1L - 1.5L of water, warm it up, dissolve the DME, let it cool, take SG reading, and bung it in. Then you can weight the averages and work out your "new" OG. Of course this'll mean you have a longer brew than expected but it's the best I can think of!