Secondary Racking

[BucksBrew]

I started my IPA on 5-12. I racked to secondary on 5-17. I think I maybe should have waited. I guess it may not matter, I don't know. The IPA I'm doing has 6 different packs of hops added at different times of boil and added as a dry hop as well.

I think getting beer off of trub and krausen may be good. But the hop trub may have added to flavor.???

I racked and dry hopped today and it is still bubbling away with my beer insisting on a blowoff since it came up thru airlock! oh well!

ANy thoughts appreciated!

Thanks,

Joe

[danno]

Joe, two thoughts come to mind. one, you had a stuck ferment and racking it roused your yeast enough that they are back to work. Two, the transfer process resulted in some co2 to come out of suspension. (that's why FG readings should be degassed for accuracy...) Did you take any gravity readings? either way, you're probably fine....

[BucksBrew]

Danno, I was telling my wife it seemed that it wasn't bubbling like the last batch was. Also My SG was 1.056 and the gravity now is at 1.016. BTW it was bubbling at 1 per sec or so when I RACKED TO SECONDARY. OOPS CAPS LOCK. My question is, should you rack at the end of ferment and when should you dry hop? I've read mixed answers?

[b3s]

i don't know about should, but i typically rack at the end of the ferment and dry hop right into the 2nd carboy (i.e. just dump the hops into the carboy and then rack the beer)...and i also typically only do stuff on the weekend, so if my ferment is done on, say, thursday i still won't rack the beer until saturday or sunday.

that said, my stout that i just bottled had a similar experience...no biggie, just a bit of a mess to clean up. i assumed that the yeast just became active after racking (well, and with the dry hops, the carboy was just a little full)...probably should have given the primary a good swirl a couple of days before racking.

[BucksBrew]

My IPA initially came up thru airlock. So I hooked up a blowoff. AFter that calmed down, went back toairlock. It came up thru again, but only on asmall scale, no overflow. So I cleaned that out again!

Plus, I forgot we are going away for the Holiday weekend, Thursday nite to Wed. Afternoon. Looks like I will be dry hopping for 12 days instead of 7-8 days. I think it won't matter!

[paul84043]

You'll be fine, that extra amount of time won't harm anything at all, that's one of the things I like about brewing, it's very patient...another week won't hurt a thing.