Bottle or secondary

[dan_man]

Ok so first batch has been fermenting for 3 weeks and on Saturday I dry hop it and I was wondering if I should transfer it to the secondary for one more week or just bottle it now my gravity has been stable at 1.018 for over a week now

 

[wildactbrewer]

I'd say bottle it up. As long as your done dry hopping and your gravity is stable then go for it. The secondary wouldn't improve anything at this point in my opinion. Some people swear by the secondary...some (me) think it's unnecessary. Did you dry hop for the last week?

 

[dan_man]

I'd say bottle it up. As long as your done dry hopping and your gravity is stable then go for it. The secondary wouldn't improve anything at this point in my opinion. Some people swear by the secondary...some (me) think it's unnecessary. Did you dry hop for the last week?

I did a 5 day dry hop. I don't want to get any grassy flavors

 

[user 30639]

I've stopped using a secondary unless I'm adding something like oak, or fruit. It just seems unnecessary.

 

[wildactbrewer]

I did a 5 day dry hop. I don't want to get any grassy flavors

I'd go ahead and bottle it. This is a personal preference, but I like my dry hopped beers young. On my palate, you lose a lot of hop character after about 30 days or so. At least that's my personal excuse for drinking a whole batch of beer in 2 weeks