Well, I just dry hopped mine on Sunday, so I have about a week before bottling. This will be my 4th brew, but this one was the one I ran into the most issues with, and I'm a little worried on how this one will turn out.
My biggest regret is that I did not have a yeast starter. Kind of my own fault, but I was a little unprepared compared to previous brews, but this one was kind of last minute picked out and had to pick up supplies at my LHBS. Used WLP002 yeast since that was probably the closest/best bet from what I had to choose from. Anyway, a few hours before pitching, I took a little DME (all I had on hand) and the yeast, and put them into a container with some water and shook it up to try to get it active as soon as I could.
2nd mistake was that I heated up the water too high and my mash temp for the first 20 minutes or so was way too high. I was expecting once the grain was added that the temp would drop ~13*, and it didn't. Mash temp was 158-163, and I tried to add as much water as I could, but my pot wasn't big enough to add any more cold water to bring it down so my only option was to wait it out. It probably was around 152* for 20-30 minutes at most during the mash. This is where I think my error may have been, not enough starch conversion, or I killed too many sugars.
My SG came to 1.060, but this was probably about 6 gallons so I estimate it was a little higher, but I don't know just how much. When I took a gravity reading after 2 weeks in the primary, it was 1.028. When books tell you to "forget" about your beer once it's fermenting to not make it seem like you're waiting so long, well I actually sort of did for once-but wish I hadn't so I would have remembered to take a couple gravity readings prior to moving to a secondary and dry hopping!
My question is, do I just leave it and see how it turns out? Will it ferment a little yet to get the FG down? IIs it too late to even try to get it to drop the FG with 6 days left before bottling? I just checked on it and there is some krausen on the surface, and it looks like its churning a little bit. I recognize some of the mistakes I made, and despite those I did try it and still tastes pretty good except its a little sweeter-unfermented sugars I presume. Any thoughts from you guys?