AfternoonReview
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What have I done?
So I had 3 gallons of beer to bottle before I went out of town, but I only had 1.5 gallons of bottles. So I siphoned all 3 gallons of beer out of the carboy, added honey (as my bottling sugar) for the total 3 gallons, but only bottled 1.5 gallons of it. I poured the remaining beer/honey mixture back into the carboy on top of the yeast cake. I then added about .2 oz of Northern Brewer hops (10.4 AA) into the carboy for dry-hopping. What the heck is going to become of this beer?
I won't be able to bottle it for another 10 or 11 days, which I know is a little long for dry-hopping - so that's one issue. I figure the yeast will start eating the honey and fermentation will re-start - which is another issue since you're supposed to wait for fermentation to stop before dry hopping, correct? Anybody have any insights into what type of effect all this will have on the finished beer?
Thanks!
So I had 3 gallons of beer to bottle before I went out of town, but I only had 1.5 gallons of bottles. So I siphoned all 3 gallons of beer out of the carboy, added honey (as my bottling sugar) for the total 3 gallons, but only bottled 1.5 gallons of it. I poured the remaining beer/honey mixture back into the carboy on top of the yeast cake. I then added about .2 oz of Northern Brewer hops (10.4 AA) into the carboy for dry-hopping. What the heck is going to become of this beer?
I won't be able to bottle it for another 10 or 11 days, which I know is a little long for dry-hopping - so that's one issue. I figure the yeast will start eating the honey and fermentation will re-start - which is another issue since you're supposed to wait for fermentation to stop before dry hopping, correct? Anybody have any insights into what type of effect all this will have on the finished beer?
Thanks!