Here's what I want to do

[the75]

I have an IPA that is ready for bottling & an IIPA that still has about 7 more days to dry hop. I want to bottle a portion of the IPA now & save the remainder to blend with a portion of the IIPA later. Is this possible to pull off without ruining the blended batch? Can I just rack off as much of the IPA as I want to bottle now, then leave the remainder in the fermenter until the IIPA is ready?

 

[DrummerBoySeth]

As long as you are careful with sanitation and do not contaminate the beer while you are transferring some to the bottling bucket, you will be fine. The beer that is left in the fermenter will not get angry at you and turn sour or anything like that.

 

[tally350z]

Sure, as long as your sanitary.

 

[Johnnyhitch1]

blanket with co2 if possible to avoid oxidation in that large head space
whats the reasoning for blending them? just curious

 

[the75]

blanket with co2 if possible to avoid oxidation in that large head space
whats the reasoning for blending them? just curious

I don't have any way of blanketing with co2, since I don't have a tank. I thing I over hopped my IIPA & figured that since I had an IPA available, maybe I could try blending a bit of both batches as an experiment. 3 new beers is better than 2. It's just an experiment.

 

[HopJuicer]

You over hopped your DIPA

 

[the75]

You over hopped your DIPA

Sounds funny, I know, but things went a little funky in beersmith with my equipment settings, so I'm questioning what I'm going to wind up with here. It might be ok, but the blend idea came to me last minute.

 

[jubelale]

How can you over hop a DIPA? The definition of DIPA is to get full saturation of hop compounds. It is supposed to be over the top.

 

[the75]

How can you over hop a DIPA? The definition of DIPA is to get full saturation of hop compounds. It is supposed to be over the top.

Its not about the amount of hops, its the amount I used during bittering. Do you really want to debate about this or answer the original question?

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

Its not about the amount of hops, its the amount I used during bittering. Do you really want to debate about this or answer the original question?

If you're tongue says it's too bitter, then as the brewer that's your call.
You can bottle some and keep the rest in the fermenter. Just don't leave it too long, because you'll have a lot more headspace after removing what you bottle. You could also rack the remainder into an appropriate secondary vessel to limit headspace.
I just bottled one gal of a hefe and left about 4.5 in the fermenter because I needed to have a few for a buddy to check out.