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Thanks for the feedback, I'm guessing I was around 70 degrees when I added the yeast because the top-off water was cooler than the wort.

Doing a Sierra Nevada clone, cooled down my 3 gallons of wort to 80 degrees, added 2 gallons of luke warm water to primary and poured in wort to aerate. Then I sprinkled in the dry yeast (SafAle US-05) and stirred. This is what the directions said to do, but they didn't specify what the wort...

Thanks for the responses, think I'll add hops to the primary this first go around.

I have a basic kit with bucket fermenter and bottling bucket. I am planning on doing an IPA next and want to dry hop. What is the best size carboy to purchase that I can use going forward as a secondary fermenter and dry hop in?

That's what I'll do, thanks again

Not experienced at all, this was first ever. Thank YOU

OK thanks. If I bottled before fermentation was complete but don't get any bottle bombs (none yet), will I be able to taste that fermentation was not complete?

Expected FG was 1.012 - 1.015. If I bottled before fermentation was complete but don't get bottle bombs, will I be able to tell?

Thanks for the responses. This is my first homebrew so did a bunch of things wrong, like not taking an original gravity reading. Final was 1.012. My airlock was no longer bubbling. Had 4 days of steady bubbling, then sporadic bubbling for a week, then nothing for 3 days. Recipe just said...

I just took the lid off my fermentor after two weeks and found a fairly thick layer of what I think is yeast and hop particle/trub on top. I was expecting a little on top but thought the majority would go to the bottom. It was probably a quarter inch thick over the whole top, looked...