Yooper

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For an IPA, it's about 7-10 days fermenting and then 5-7 days or so of dryhopping. Sometimes I rack onto the dryhops, sometimes I add them to the primary at the end of fermenting. After the dryhopping for those 5-7 days, the beer is packaged.

You don't want to keep the beer in the fermenter overly long, as the hops aroma will start to fade within a short period of time.

I get my IPAs kegged or bottled by week three.

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Pugs13

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Man that seems just so fast...week three in the bottle, really? I guess I am just used to doing souts...I mean with our stout we went 1 week primary and up to 4 weeks in secondary...then another 4 weeks in the bottle...I guess main thing here is just make sure the fermentation process is complete before racking...

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keesh

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Ever had a Pliny? Read the label... Pliny is not meant to be aged! Drink fresh! etc. etc. so on and so forth. The faster turnaround for your IPA the better. If you could keg it, I'd stay drink it 3 weeks after brewing, but that is just me.

Pugs13

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Good to know guys! Thanks!

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Yankeehillbrewer

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I try to follow Vinnie Cilurzo's method of Dry Hopping, which is cold crash for a day or two, then add your dry hops. I've heard him state multiple times that a 12 day dry hop is the magic number for him. There apparantly are studies that say hop oils will attatch themselves to yeast cells and then fall out of suspension. So the theory is that it is best to get as much yeast out of suspension before Dry Hopping. I dry hop in the keg now and usually start drinking my IPA's after 2 weeks in the keg, that's after a 3-4 week primary.

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icanbenchurcat

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I just brewed a brown ale that I am dry hopping. Trying to get an extra special bitter out of it.

I primary'd for 2.5 weeks, was very cloudy after steady gravity, so I moved to secondary for a week.
Now I am in a tertiary with dry hops and so far so good.

I think what you are looking for is two different things: 1. Steady gravity => 2. Is it Clear? If no, rack until clear, then move to yes. If yes, dry hop depending on style.