Advice - to crash, to bottle, wait...

[MOAleworks]

I brewed a 1.063 OG IPA (el dorado with citra dry hop) using s-05 about 10 days ago. By day 7, it had dropped to 1.012 for 3 days straight after a slightly warmer than ideal fermentation (70-73F).

A racked to secondary after 7 days to get it off the trub (forgot to use whirloc but did filter through strainer into fermentor after using wort chiller) and dry hopped. I dry-hopped hopped the 3G batch with 1 oz of citra and 0.5 oz el dorado. I have a keezer with temperature controller (just got it).

My question: I'm concerned that I was inpatient and should have let it sit in primary for another week to clear up or at least in secondary for a whole week or 2 to condition before dry-hopping. Now I'm at a cross-roads where I'm not sure whether to do one of the following:

• Options:
• Let it sit until day 14 (7 on dry hops) the bottle and hope it conditions further on yeast still in beer
• Do #1, but cold crash after 4 or 7 days to get the hops out of the beer and bottle
• After dry hopping 4-7 days, cold crash beer and let it sit in secondary for another week or 2 to do the conditioning I didn't let it do (not sure how much yeast would be viable to effectively do this)
• Do #3 but also dry hop again after conditioning to get the aroma back.

Whatever advice you can give me would be appreciated. My concern is that I shouldn't let it sit on dry hops for the 2+ weeks it likely needs to condition before bottling. Of course, I could leave the hops in there and risk grassy flavors. Or I could repitch more yeast after crashing and racking to tertiary? Clearly all of the place in my head and can't decide what would be best to brew a clear but still aroma packed ipa.

 

[billl]

Option #4 - taste it. No use worrying about what it might need. Give it a taste and find out. If you've got any sour notes or off flavors, just let it rest at room temp until they fade. If it does need to sit, I'd pull the dry hops after a week and then just leave it alone. If the aroma isn't what you want by the time the beer is ready for a bottle, then you can drop hop again.