This is my 3rd brew and each time the fermentation ends after 1 week. Should I be proceeding with dry hopping or transferring at this time or keep the wort on the yeast cake for the full 2 weeks per recipe?
Yes. It will depend on your desires. If I am low on beer and want to hurry a batch I might dry hop at one week and bottle on day 10 or 12. If I have lots of beer on hand I might leave the beer in the fermenter for 2 or 3 weeks before I dry hop and if life gets in the way it might be a week or 2 before I bottle. There is no real wrong way as long as your beer has reached final gravity before you bottle.
Great info, thx all. I test with iodine first then pull FG, so far so good. Patience is a virtue, but that doesn't include home brewing.... Using 05 with a 1 hop IPA @ 65+- to try and get some peachiness, so more time on the yeast the better (I think)
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