Grapefruit Pulpin IPA

[TwistedGray]

...until you try all of them, you really don't know what's best for you. I'm sure this kind of knowledge will come with experience.

Exactly.

I am sure if you follow the recipe and instructions you received in your kit the beer will come out drinkable (good is always subjective, ha ha).

 

[Limbrizik]

Dry hop/peel in primary after 7ish days, let sit for as long as you want to dry hop. Rack to bottling bucket (gently) and bottle. This is what I would do.

 

[Rob2010SS]

So reading back on this thread, by doing the dry hopping and grapefruit peel in the primary, am I going to get a lot of debris in the final product by not going to secondary? Or will I be able to minimize that by being extremely careful when I rack to the bottling bucket? I'm not so worried about getting debris from the dry hop because I'm going to use the muslin bags. I'm more worried about the debris that's in the primary from the active fermentation stage.

 

[BowAholic]

it's not that difficult to leave the trash/trub in the bottom of the primary. It's way easier if you have a place to cold crash for a couple of days before bottling. I put my primary in the bottom of a beer refrigerator 2 days before I bottle or keg... when I can. You will do just fine without that. I added my grapefruit/dry hops to mine today... 1.010 FG... 7.2% ABV... I can't wait...

 

[Rob2010SS]

it's not that difficult to leave the trash/trub in the bottom of the primary. It's way easier if you have a place to cold crash for a couple of days before bottling. I put my primary in the bottom of a beer refrigerator 2 days before I bottle or keg... when I can. You will do just fine without that. I added my grapefruit/dry hops to mine today... 1.010 FG... 7.2% ABV... I can't wait...

Nice! I just took a hydrometer reading last night. Right around 1.012 which puts me approx. 6.9% ish. How did you end up with 7.2%!?!?!

 

[Rob2010SS]

it's not that difficult to leave the trash/trub in the bottom of the primary. It's way easier if you have a place to cold crash for a couple of days before bottling. I put my primary in the bottom of a beer refrigerator 2 days before I bottle or keg... when I can. You will do just fine without that. I added my grapefruit/dry hops to mine today... 1.010 FG... 7.2% ABV... I can't wait...

Actually, when I use a calculator that incorporates the temperature at time of OG and FG reading, it puts me at 7.1% given an OG of 1.064 and FG 1.012.

 

[BowAholic]

see how easy it is... My OG was 1.065 and FG is 1.010...after temp. corrections... so 7.22 ABV to be precise