still fermenting 10 days later, should i dry hop?

[zodiak3000]

i have a blow off tube from the carboy and im still getting bubbles activley going in the bucket of starnsan. ive never had active fermentation go this long. i usually dry hop on day 10 (today). should i go ahead and do it or wait longer? OG was 1.070. i usually would take a gravity reading, but i just switched back again from buckets to carboys and dont have anything to take a sample with. i usually just ferment in primary only for 21 days, dry hop anywhere from 10-14.

 

[runningweird]

I would wait to dry hop, if you still have active co2 release then a lot of your wonderful hop aroma might be carried away with the releasing co2 - up and out the air lock. each fermentation is different, let it ride.

also, .07 is a big beer. did you pitch an adequate yeast population/make a starter? if not then the yeast ca take a while to do their work.

can you see bubbles in the beer itself?
is there still a krausen?

 

[Thehopguy]

ya wait until fermentation is over

 

[Thehopguy]

what kind of yeast did you use?

 

[frydogbrews]

do whatver you would like to do. dry hopping now will probably waste some hops, but if you really want to stick to that strict schedule, it won't really hurt anything, just won't be as aroma hoppy as you would expect.
what are you dry hopping that is that big? a DIPA or a larger IPA?

 

[RobWalker]

Is it over or is it just pushing air out? Taking your gravity is almost essential right now if you want this question answered...why do you drop hop at day 10? Because fermentation is over and clearing has started or just as a rule of thumb?

 

[Revvy]

Hown do you know fermentation is over or not? All bubbling tells you is that it is bubbling...Not whehter it is from fermentation, an infection, outgassing because the cat bumped the fermenter, a change in ambient tempertature or a change in barometric pressure.

What's the current gravity? THAT will tell you if it's done or not...

 

[badhabit]

No mater what the cause, if you dry hop while there is bubbling you will be loosing the aroma that you are trying to develope by using the dry hop method. You need to wait until the bubbling has stopped to get all the value of dry hopping.....enough has been said already about taking a SG reading.

 

[zodiak3000]

i went ahead and dry hopped today since krausen dropped significantly and active c02 from the blow off tube was no longer present. Like my original post, i would have taken a gravity reading but i didnt have anything to take it with. how do you guys actaully take gravity readings w/ carboys? anyway FWIW- i fermented w/ wlp001, pitched a huge starter via mr. malty. its an imperail red rye (or basically a DIPA). i use day 10 as a rule of thumb because fermentation is almost always over by then and i dry hop anywhere from 10-14 days.

 

[frydogbrews]

i use this:
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/fermtech-wine-thief.html
they are only eight bucks and they work nicely. buy two just in case you accidentally step on one. not that i did that, twice, because that's...you know...crazy...really though, buy two, those things break easy.

 

[zodiak3000]

i use this:
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/fermtech-wine-thief.html
they are only eight bucks and they work nicely. buy two just in case you accidentally step on one. not that i did that, twice, because that's...you know...crazy...really though, buy two, those things break easy.

 

[OldStyler]

Or get a stainless steel thief... I don't have a link, my LHBS has them.