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Racking now won’t hurt it. Seems like it’s pretty much done fermenting. You may see a .01 drop in gravity but I would guess most likely not. I personally would bottle now to make sure you can get the perfect amount of carbonation in case you have to let it sit longer than expected but still 4...

I read one of your posts saying it’s hot and humid and you don’t have a great place to store it to keep cool. My recommendation with these circumstances would be to use Safale-US05 yeast. It’s extremely common, doesn’t need a starter (just dump it in your wort when it’s room temperature) and...

Amazon sells citra pellets by the pound. Saves a lot of money in the long run

Thanks for the advice all!

Temperature is going to be in the 90s this week and I just bottled. Any advice on how to keep the bottles around 60-70 degrees?

US-05 is super forgiving with temperature and acts quickly

Maybe it's depending on how much sediment I have in each bottle. Does US-05 have a dry/bitter taste to it possibly?

I am bottling and mash at 153. My yeast is Safale-US05. Maybe for my next beer I’ll just pour half into a glass and drink it and compare to the other half to see if it could have something to do with sediment at the bottom. It’s definitely not like a sour flavor like it could be spoiled and not...

So this is consistently happening on my batches and driving me nuts. I'll put my beer in the fridge, try it that night and it tastes great. Next night, still tastes great. However, after about a week or so the beer tastes significantly more bitter than previously... What in the world could be...

What was your Original Grabity?

I have been brewing for a few years and now really trying to be as efficient and consistent in my brewing as possible. With that said, I do batch sparging by rinsing the grains once, and during the mash have my water way above my grain bed (I am now aware that I only want my water to be a couple...

How do you go about controlling your temperature for fermentation? I just always put mine in my cabinet under the counter and let it do it’s thing.

How didn’t you go about controlling the temperature? Wrapping the racking cane means to buy a hop bag around the bottom of your siphon so you don’t have to worry about hops clogging it. If you dry hop in bags and not freely on the beer you’ll be fine but if you drop them in freely definitely...

Right on. You’ll get some nice aroma with all the dry hop addition.

What was the final recipe you went with?

Thanks for the clarification!

Store in the fridge. You don’t want the yeast to reactivate and have an exploding bottle.

IBUs can be a very misleading number. High number of IBUs doesn’t always translate to actual bitterness. The late hop additions (5-10 minutes left in a boil are going to have more aromatic effects with little bittering) I would whirlpool your 5-minute hop additions instead of adding them to your...

I have brewed around a dozen IPAs and love using the US-05 and the “forgiving” temperature range is great as well. If looking to add hop aroma I would recommend whirlpooling your last addition of hops (the 3 added with 5-min left). I just recently did my first whirlpool and I did 4oz for 30 mins...

I’m not sure if this is your first batch or not, so make sure after you do your 60-minute mash collect your wort in a different pot without the grains in them then proceed to boil and once the boil begins add the hops