It's a 5 gallon batch that came with my kit called fresh squished ipa. During the boiling stage it called for mosaic, nugget and citra hops vany remember the amount but i added 1 oz pf citra and 1 oz of mosaicfor det hopping. Since it's my first brew I'm not worried about aroma but just want to make sure it tastes good. It still seems to be fermenting since the fluid is moving around and still producing quite a bit of c02.Nope. What style are you brewing and how large was the addition?
I do a dry hop during active fermentation for my NEIPAs and another before kegging. The worst that will happen is that the active fermentation may blow off some aromatics and the "biotransformation" of hops in an active fermentation state will change the hop character which is diffrent depending on what hop you are using. A ton of people like "biotransformed" hop additions better anyway. If you want you can do a second dry hop once the fermentation has fully stopped to get a unique flavor/aroma combo.
If you are not brewing a super hop forward beer, the early addition probably won't affect much at all. Just try to keep the the fermentation close to the mid - high 60s (don't drop your temp if you are already higher than that though). And test your beers gravity in about 4 days and again at 7. There's a good chance that it could be ready to bottle in a little as a week from now anyway. Just make sure you have steady hydrometer readings.
It still seems to be fermenting since the fluid is moving around and still producing quite a bit of c02.
Ok I took a reading and have a 1.010 reading. The og eas 1.056. Should I wait and do another reading in a couple of days or is it ready for bottling? The recipe says that the final gravity should be 1.010.
Also the kit gave me 5 oz of priming sure for bottling. I now have a little less than 5 gallons in the carboy so I'm wondering if this will give me bottle bombs if the priming sugar is ment fpr 5 gals
okay so the online priming calculator says to add 3 oz of corn sugar but the extract kit says to add the whole 5 oz packet?? will the 2 oz difference make a bottle bomb?
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