Adding yeast before bottling??

[choppedandbrewed14]

So I have an IPA in the fermentor now, going to give it a week or two in primary and 2 in secondary for dry hopping. This will be the longest I've let a beer sit before bottling as I usually go about 14-15 days in primary then bottle. If I let my beer sit for the three to four weeks I'm wanting to, will I need to pitch more yeast before bottling due to most of settling it out for sitting so long? I'm hoping I don't have to because I've never had issues with having enough yeast in suspension to carb bottles.. Just thought maybe the extra time in secondary would possibly allow for most if the yeast I'll need for bottling to settle out. Any thoughts?

 

[jnacey]

To answer your question, no. You'll be fine. You could leave it for another 2-3 months and be fine.

What I'd do instead is just keep the beer in primary, add your dry hops and then bottle after 4-5 days. Recent research has shown that you get the benefit of dry hopping after less than 24 hours so why wait two weeks?

 

[Calder]

My normal process is 6 weeks from brew to bottle, many longer, and never have issues with yeast.

Yeast stays in suspension for a long time. I only start to think about re-pitching for bottling, if it is more than 6 months from pitching.

 

[choppedandbrewed14]

So would dry hopping in primary would be okay?

 

[jnacey]

Yea, I've only ever dry hopped in primary.