Following up on this thread. I just put the IPA into bottles. So I got the same SG reading consistently, it even went down to 1.008 based on my hydrometer reading. I kept the beer in the fermenter based on my reading of Palmer's discussion of the yeast's Conditioning Phase in "How To Brew." I...

Great advice, thank you! Will be doing the dry hopping this week. I have a related question. Today I’m going to brew a brown ale and would like to use the remaining portion of an open packet of yeast. The packet was sanitized before I used it then I dried it and put it in a new ziploc bag...

Wow! You were absolutely right. Gravity reading from the hydrometer puts it around 1.011. Refractometer looks like 7.5 brix which I guess puts that reading at 1.028, but I understand that alcohol distorts the refractometer readings, so I'll take the hydrometer reading. Should I maintain the...

I put an IPA into primary on the night of 3/3. The beer had a lag time of about 8-9 hours and gradually started fermenting increasingly vigorously. Last night it was fermenting furiously. This morning it has totally stopped. Characteristics of brew: The wort is 3.5 gallons, so I pitched...

Thank you for your responses! They give me a lot more confidence going towards the dry-hop stage.

Hello all, this is my first post! I just put an IPA into the primary fermenter and will dry hop it next week. I have a large amount of hop pellets and will be measuring them out for the dry hop before tossing them into the primary. When measuring the hops, should I sanitize the bowl I'll place...