Berry454
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Just brewed up a festival American IPA kit and it said to add the hops on day 5 or 6.
I’m now brewing in my aquarium room which with over 2000 gallons of aquarium water the room never drops below 28 Celsius. Now that I’m fermenting in this room the average temperature of my fermenters is 26 Celsius.
I’ve found at this temperature my fermenters are finishing rapidly quick. Though I’ve brewed plenty of winexpert kits at this temperature both red and rose kits and I’ve not noticed any difference in the quality compared to fermenting at lower temperatures.
Anyways I’m babbling now, back to the festival American IPA kit that I have fermenting now. I’m 3 days in and the SG has rapidly dropped from 1.050 to 1.010 which essentially means the kit has finished fermenting. I knew at the temp of 26 it would finish very quickly so I added the hops at start of fermentation 100g sachet. I didn’t want to add the hops late as the instructions mentioned as I knew my fermentation would be quick and I didn’t want beer sitting in a fermenter for 5+ days after fermentation ended only to oxidise.
Though the kit said the yeast included was slow fermenting and that fermentation should take 10-14 days. Mine is basically finished in 3 days.
How should I expect the rapid fermentation to impact the finished beer? And how will adding the hops at the beginning of fermentation going to change the brew? I’m more interested in if any of you have added the hops this early or not.
I will probably be putting the fermenter in the fridge tomorrow ready for kegging on Thursday.
I’m now brewing in my aquarium room which with over 2000 gallons of aquarium water the room never drops below 28 Celsius. Now that I’m fermenting in this room the average temperature of my fermenters is 26 Celsius.
I’ve found at this temperature my fermenters are finishing rapidly quick. Though I’ve brewed plenty of winexpert kits at this temperature both red and rose kits and I’ve not noticed any difference in the quality compared to fermenting at lower temperatures.
Anyways I’m babbling now, back to the festival American IPA kit that I have fermenting now. I’m 3 days in and the SG has rapidly dropped from 1.050 to 1.010 which essentially means the kit has finished fermenting. I knew at the temp of 26 it would finish very quickly so I added the hops at start of fermentation 100g sachet. I didn’t want to add the hops late as the instructions mentioned as I knew my fermentation would be quick and I didn’t want beer sitting in a fermenter for 5+ days after fermentation ended only to oxidise.
Though the kit said the yeast included was slow fermenting and that fermentation should take 10-14 days. Mine is basically finished in 3 days.
How should I expect the rapid fermentation to impact the finished beer? And how will adding the hops at the beginning of fermentation going to change the brew? I’m more interested in if any of you have added the hops this early or not.
I will probably be putting the fermenter in the fridge tomorrow ready for kegging on Thursday.