adhomebrew10
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I am set to bottle my APA on Saturday, which will be 4 weeks in the fermentor. Last Thursday I took a gravity reading, which was 1.012 (OG 1.050) which is right at my target, so I dry hopped (pellets).
Questions:
1) I will try and not rack the hop sludge into the bottling bucket, but if some gets in, and subsequently in the bottles, is it that big of deal?
2) For calculating priming sugar, what temperature do I use? Is it the fermentation temperature, or the expected temperature when bottling, which will be something warmer.
3) Also on calculating priming sugar, do I use the volume in the fermentor, or something less accounting for racking losses? I have approx 4.75g in the fermentor now. Do I need to use 4.5?
4) My beer still seems to be off gassing.. Do the hop pellets cause Co2 to come out of suspension as they drop? I have noticed an increase since I dry hopped, and have a pretty good layer of bubbles on the top of the beer. I have also moved the fermentor since I dry hopped (ALL in the PRIMARY). I swirled it a couple of times to make the pellets drop and had to shift it to the other side of the fermentation cooler to make room for the new batch.
Thanks!
Questions:
1) I will try and not rack the hop sludge into the bottling bucket, but if some gets in, and subsequently in the bottles, is it that big of deal?
2) For calculating priming sugar, what temperature do I use? Is it the fermentation temperature, or the expected temperature when bottling, which will be something warmer.
3) Also on calculating priming sugar, do I use the volume in the fermentor, or something less accounting for racking losses? I have approx 4.75g in the fermentor now. Do I need to use 4.5?
4) My beer still seems to be off gassing.. Do the hop pellets cause Co2 to come out of suspension as they drop? I have noticed an increase since I dry hopped, and have a pretty good layer of bubbles on the top of the beer. I have also moved the fermentor since I dry hopped (ALL in the PRIMARY). I swirled it a couple of times to make the pellets drop and had to shift it to the other side of the fermentation cooler to make room for the new batch.
Thanks!