NB dead ringer kit question

[mbtmm]

I brewed this kid and it's been in primary for about three weeks.

The instructions say 2 weeks primary and 4-6 secondary. You're supposed to dry hop a week before you bottle.

I really don't want to secondary. So my question is would it be ok to just dry hop in the primary here at 3 weeks and then bottle about 7 days later?

 

[blizzard]

You can do that. The hop aroma may not be quite as bright (hop oils cling to yeast), but you'll still have a tasty beer.

 

[Lilburgh]

Dead ringer was my first kit. I did primary for 2 weeks, secondary for 2 weeks, while dry hopping for the full 2 week secondary. I conditioned in bottles for 3 weeks and it was great. I plan on doing this kit again soon in a keg. I won't change anything.


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[Lilburgh]

Dead ringer was my first kit. I did primary for 2 weeks, secondary for 2 weeks, while dry hopping for the full 2 week secondary. I conditioned in bottles for 3 weeks and it was great. I plan on doing this kit again soon in a keg. I won't change anything.



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[davemattb]

Definitely ok to just dry hop in primary. I'd up that kits dry hop though. I just dropped 4 oz into my 2 heart clone this morning. My 2 cents...

 

[Jreyes63]

I did this Kit last week as well. Any ideas if we want to brew our own again without going through NB......., what type of grains they used......oz? The hops oz. and #'s of extract syrups are straight forwards from the instructions. But the amount of grains for a 5gal is what I'd like.

Jonathan

 

[davemattb]

NB puts the recipe for all their recipes on their site. While that makes a good beer, I personally like it different. I use very little hops at 60 then start loading them up with 15 minutes left. 4 oz dry hop for 1 week. All centennial of course. I do a partial mash 6 lbs lme and few lbs 2 row, 1lb munich, 12 oz crystal 10, 8 oz caramunich and some carapils. Shoot for around 50 ibu and og 1.064. Bells yeast with good size starter. Of course this is my preference! I'll try to edit this post if I notice I entered my grains incorrectly.