Warm weather and dry hopping.

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kidsmoke

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I'm currently dry hopping a saison (~2.5 gallons) with .75 oz of Saphir hops. I started on Saturday, and was letting them sit in the 70-74 range in my basement...that is till Monday when the heatwave came in and slowly rose it to 76 and finally to 78 yesterday.

I originally planned to let the beer sit on the hops for 14 days, but I know that dry hop aromas generally are extracted faster at higher temperatures.

My question is can I go ahead and bottle this on Saturday or should I wait another 7 days?

Also, is there any harm with the higher temperatures in actually losing hop aroma?
 
As long as you added the hops after fermentation was finished, you shouldn't have to worry about losing aroma. If there's no gases being created to push stuff out of the airlock, then you're all good.
 
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