Dry Hopping a Witbier with Centennial

[RiderEh]

Can anyone recommend the amount to use in a Wit? I used Wyeast 3944 and a wheat bear recipe. I plan on splitting this batch 2 weeks into fermentation, and doing half with apricot, and half with some orange/coriander soaked in Vodka. I'm not sure I should add the Centennial to the apricot?

 

[mrgrimm101]

5 gallons? I dry hop my IPAs with about 3 oz, so maybe 1/2 oz?

 

[RiderEh]

Yeah 23L batch split into two 11.5 carboys for the flavouring of apricot/orange coriander.

 

[Nubiwan]

Old thread - but came up in my search for Centennial dry hopping an IPA. I through an ounce in my 5 gallon IPA. I havent yet tried dry hopping. For that matter, my first IPA too. The hops went in last night. Today, I couldn't resist taking another gravity reading (Taste) - even though Fermentation is essentially stopped, and test for any change.

Well, the beer has a very citrusy flavour and aroma not inconsistent with several IPA's I have tasted. Perhaps a little sweeter, but still in the primary, so carbonation should eliminate the sweetness. Pretty excited to get this bottle in a week. I read 5 days is plenty. Might crash for a day, then bottle.

It's all i can do no to drink the bloody stuff out the primary.

Hops seem to work fast.

 

[RM-MN]

Well, the beer has a very citrusy flavour and aroma not inconsistent with several IPA's I have tasted. Perhaps a little sweeter, but still in the primary, so carbonation should eliminate the sweetness. Pretty excited to get this bottle in a week. I read 5 days is plenty. Might crash for a day, then bottle.

Please be a little more patient. Do take at least 2 hydrometer readings a day or two apart to verify that fermentation really is complete. Bottle bombs are a real possibility bottling too soon and they are no fun at all.

 

[Nubiwan]

Please be a little more patient. Do take at least 2 hydrometer readings a day or two apart to verify that fermentation really is complete. Bottle bombs are a real possibility bottling too soon and they are no fun at all.

I hear you but its pretty much done at around 1012 for several days. Might have scratched up to 1011 today. Even gave it a little push to 66 degrees to finish it ff, but it wouldn't budge. Anything I read in gravity now is part eyeballling error, part wishful thinking.

 

[RM-MN]

OK, you are fine to bottle it......but....beer still takes time and that time can be in the fermenter or in the bottle/keg. That time lets yeast settle out, flavors meld, and heading compounds develop. I don't like a lot of sediment in my bottles so I let more of it settle out in the fermenter. That time in the fermenter also lets flavors meld. Once bottled it takes time before your beer will develop a head. Notice I didn't say carbonation, I said develop a head. Just for fun, I opened a bottle that I had just filled and capped the day before. Decent amount of carbonation, no head on it at all.

 

[Nubiwan]

OK, you are fine to bottle it......but....beer still takes time and that time can be in the fermenter or in the bottle/keg. That time lets yeast settle out, flavors meld, and heading compounds develop. I don't like a lot of sediment in my bottles so I let more of it settle out in the fermenter. That time in the fermenter also lets flavors meld. Once bottled it takes time before your beer will develop a head. Notice I didn't say carbonation, I said develop a head. Just for fun, I opened a bottle that I had just filled and capped the day before. Decent amount of carbonation, no head on it at all.

I am kinda constrained by my dry hop, whihc I only want to do foe about 4-5 days, then I will crash, and have to bottle . Also, reading on here that many prefer to Ferment and bottle an IPA as quick as they can to get at those "Fresh" hoppy aromas which dissipate over time in a bottle or primary. Well, that is what I read.

In any event, my beer taste decent in the primary, so a few more days of dry hop, a couple days of crash, and 2-4 weeks in a bottle, should make it ....well...... invincible. In fact, if its any good, I think I will name it Invincible IPA (IIPA)....

 

[RM-MN]

Try one bottle at one week. If you are happy with the taste and heading, keep drinking it. Otherwise, wait a week and try another one. Typically 3 week in the bottle gets the best heading but with your IPA, loss of flavor/aroma is something to be concerned about. Mine lose that aroma in 2 to 3 months.

 

[Nubiwan]

Try one bottle at one week. If you are happy with the taste and heading, keep drinking it. Otherwise, wait a week and try another one. Typically 3 week in the bottle gets the best heading but with your IPA, loss of flavor/aroma is something to be concerned about. Mine lose that aroma in 2 to 3 months.

Pretty sure mine will not share that fate.