Ipa fermentation

[reinstone]

Hello. I brewed an ipa last Friday. On day 10 now. Og 1.070 and it now sits at 1.010. I started a series of pellet hop additions 5 days ago at a gravity of 1.012. I have been tasting the sample and it is dry and immensely hoppy and a bit harsh as expected.

My question is if the beer needs to condition a little more should I transfer it to kegs under co2 and let it continue to condition at fermentation temps or should I leave it in the primary?

As a side note this beer is no more harsh at this point than when I generally cold crash and keg.

The gravity was at fg on day 6.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Hello. I brewed an ipa last Friday. On day 10 now. Og 1.070 and it now sits at 1.010. I started a series of pellet hop additions 5 days ago at a gravity of 1.012. I have been tasting the sample and it is dry and immensely hoppy and a bit harsh as expected.

My question is if the beer needs to condition a little more should I transfer it to kegs under co2 and let it continue to condition at fermentation temps or should I leave it in the primary?

As a side note this beer is no more harsh at this point than when I generally cold crash and keg.

The gravity was at fg on day 6.

I vote for crash cooling, kegging, carbonating, ASAP. If you can normally turn beer this quickly, this won't be much different, and potentially better due to freshness.

I turned a heavily-hopped Amarillo/Centennial IPA grain to glass in 12 days because we had friends coming over, with great success.

 

[prandlesc]

I'd let it sit in your primary for a few more days, or even a week or two. Sitting in your primary for three or four weeks won't hurt the beer. Then transfer to you keg, taste and either drink it or let it sit another couple weeks. My high hops IPAs (I have one on tap with 10 oz during the boil and 9 dry) need a few weeks for the flavors to mellow out.

 

[reinstone]

Thanks for the replies

 

[Yooper]

I really drink IPAs as fresh as possible. I wait until fermentation is finished, and the beer is clear, then dryhop for 5-7 days and then package.

I have an IPA now that is a week old and not at FG yet, though, so I have to wait until it's at FG and clearing (it still has krausen). The timeline is generally about 10 days in the fermenter before dryhopping, but since this one is taking a bit longer due to the low fermentation temperatures, I'll just wait it out.

If your beer is clear, and has been dryhopped already, there isn't any advantage to keeping it in the fermenter unless you're adding more dryhops in my opinion.

 

[hellawaits77]

You'll get varying answers for this, and none will be wrong persay, but I'm a fresher a better kind of guy to any kind of Pale Ale's. Since you've already reached the FG, given it a few days to clear and dry hop, I'd say go ahead and keg it.