thehopthief
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I'm on my second home beer but first one not from a kit and am wondering about secondary fermentation or really conditioning. I know there's debate whether that is truly necessary but that's not my question here because I already moved to secondary vessel because I use that opportunity to dry hop. However my question is, how long do you typically keep the beer conditioning in the secondary? This beer had an OG of approximately 1.073 and ABV based off measurement during secondary movement is about 8.6% so I've read you should keep higher ABV beers conditioning longer but just curious for the community's thoughts. My first kit beer was a 7.5% IPA and I did primary for a week then secondary for 10 days followed by bottle conditioning for 2 weeks. However I tried the beer after 1 week because I was impatient and it definitely had some harshness to it that is now gone presumably due to further conditioning.
I'm thinking with my higher OG beer, I should condition longer and definitely let sit in bottles for the full 2-3 weeks but as an impatient brewer I'm wondering if I bottle this week (tomorrow, Tuesday will be one week) will it make a difference or should I let it sit longer?
Thanks for any advice!
I'm thinking with my higher OG beer, I should condition longer and definitely let sit in bottles for the full 2-3 weeks but as an impatient brewer I'm wondering if I bottle this week (tomorrow, Tuesday will be one week) will it make a difference or should I let it sit longer?
Thanks for any advice!