AnthonyHopkins
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Hello!
I am brewing my third Youngs American IPA kit - and looking for some advice.
The first 2 i used tap water, and a healthy dose of blind ambition.
They were just about drinkable. This time ive gone for bottled water. i figure 90+% of this thing is water, so might as well use good water. (The tap water here is like drinking from a swimming pool)
When i brewed the first two, i struggled to keep consistent temperatures - as my house is quite cold. This time I placed the FV into a trug for the primary, filled it with water and added an aquarium heater. it was working perfectly at around 21c, until someone in my house decided it was cold enough to crank the heating on, which meant ive seen that the temps (of the trug of water) that the FV is in - reached around 24.5c - and possibly a little over 25 at times.
for a few days it bubbled furiously, like a witches cauldron.
8 days in (started 25.10.20) and the airlock is now not bubbling at all.
OG: 1.050
Current: 1.010
The guide says to dry hop at 1.010 or below - and shoot for a target SG of 1.00.
Ive checked the airlock seal it tight, and sat for over 10minutes staring at it, nothing happens.
so my question (finally, im asking it..) is - what to do?
Should i sit it out longer because 8 days is really short, or is it likely that having it at a higher temperature has just sped the whole thing up, and its time to dry hop early and have a potentially not great beer because ive over cooked it.
Im weary of dry hopping too soon, and losing the hop aroma because they end up floating like a turd for a week - but similarly, if the beer has done all its going to do for now and is entirely inactive, i don't think it helps for it to sit there, and stagnate in primary? instead i could hop it to high heaven, and prepare to move it to secondary.
Hopefully someone here has some ideas/experience with this situation!
Thanks.
I am brewing my third Youngs American IPA kit - and looking for some advice.
The first 2 i used tap water, and a healthy dose of blind ambition.
They were just about drinkable. This time ive gone for bottled water. i figure 90+% of this thing is water, so might as well use good water. (The tap water here is like drinking from a swimming pool)
When i brewed the first two, i struggled to keep consistent temperatures - as my house is quite cold. This time I placed the FV into a trug for the primary, filled it with water and added an aquarium heater. it was working perfectly at around 21c, until someone in my house decided it was cold enough to crank the heating on, which meant ive seen that the temps (of the trug of water) that the FV is in - reached around 24.5c - and possibly a little over 25 at times.
for a few days it bubbled furiously, like a witches cauldron.
8 days in (started 25.10.20) and the airlock is now not bubbling at all.
OG: 1.050
Current: 1.010
The guide says to dry hop at 1.010 or below - and shoot for a target SG of 1.00.
Ive checked the airlock seal it tight, and sat for over 10minutes staring at it, nothing happens.
so my question (finally, im asking it..) is - what to do?
Should i sit it out longer because 8 days is really short, or is it likely that having it at a higher temperature has just sped the whole thing up, and its time to dry hop early and have a potentially not great beer because ive over cooked it.
Im weary of dry hopping too soon, and losing the hop aroma because they end up floating like a turd for a week - but similarly, if the beer has done all its going to do for now and is entirely inactive, i don't think it helps for it to sit there, and stagnate in primary? instead i could hop it to high heaven, and prepare to move it to secondary.
Hopefully someone here has some ideas/experience with this situation!
Thanks.