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This latest BPA brewed on 4/12 is the first time I've dry hopped a beer. I have the option of bottling it Saturday, 4/19, after a week, or Sunday 5/4, after 3 weeks. Will leaving the wort sit w the dry hop charge prove detrimental? Or not? Thanks to anyone willing to offer input
 
It only takes 3 days for all of the hop oils to be absorbed from dry hopping. In fact, I believe the research shows that something like 90% of the hop oils are absorbed in the first 24 hours. There is some debate whether dry hopping for 1-2 weeks is beneficial or not, but back when I first started brewing in 2014 (and for a while after that), the common belief was that dry hopping should be done for at least 7 days. Nowadays, though, it's widely considered for shorter dry hopping periods to be beneficial with 3 days being the most common, though there are still breweries that dry hop for one or two weeks (as a famous example, the widely revered Pliny the Elder is dry hopped for 2 weeks). For my most recent beer, I dry hopped for only 2 days (for those who saw me posting in the "Dry Hopping : Hops and yeast at the beginning of fermentation ......" thread, I don't dry hop at yeast pitch for all the beers I brew. Just maybe half of them?).

Personally I'd bottle it on 4/19, assuming the final gravity is stable.
 
It only takes 3 days for all of the hop oils to be absorbed from dry hopping. In fact, I believe the research shows that something like 90% of the hop oils are absorbed in the first 24 hours. There is some debate whether dry hopping for 1-2 weeks is beneficial or not, but back when I first started brewing in 2014 (and for a while after that), the common belief was that dry hopping should be done for at least 7 days. Nowadays, though, it's widely considered for shorter dry hopping periods to be beneficial with 3 days being the most common, though there are still breweries that dry hop for one or two weeks (as a famous example, the widely revered Pliny the Elder is dry hopped for 2 weeks). For my most recent beer, I dry hopped for only 2 days (for those who saw me posting in the "Dry Hopping : Hops and yeast at the beginning of fermentation ......" thread, I don't dry hop at yeast pitch for all the beers I brew. Just maybe half of them?).

Personally I'd bottle it on 4/19, assuming the final gravity is stable.
 
OG was 1.045; FG looks like 1.005. Bottling today. Ty.
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I tend to work my schedule so that the dry hops don't stay in the beer for more than 3 to 4 days. I don't mind letting the beer sit for a week or two after fermentation so that I can get my schedule worked out and have 3 days of dry hopping. But, that is me. Others have different opinions of how it is supposed to go. I say, do what you think is right for you. If the beer comes out different than you thought, adjust and move on
 
I tend to work my schedule so that the dry hops don't stay in the beer for more than 3 to 4 days. I don't mind letting the beer sit for a week or two after fermentation so that I can get my schedule worked out and have 3 days of dry hopping. But, that is me. Others have different opinions of how it is supposed to go. I say, do what you think is right for you. If the beer comes out different than you thought, adjust and move on
FG looks right; gravity sample tasted pretty good. Bottling today.
 

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