Question for the homebrewers

[Lotobear]

I have a batch of single hop (all grain) IPA which has completed primary fermentation.

I have always racked it off into secondary but this time I am thinking of going straight to bottling (in another week or so).

I know this is an oft discussed subject in brewing circles and there seems to be conflicting opinions out there.

Can anyone comment? If I leave it in primary is it okay to dry hop in the same vessel and how long can I leave it without risking off flavours?

Cheers

[RichFN2]

I found all grain produced loads more trub/gunk during the brewing process and despite my best efforts some would end up in the fermenter.

I never bothered secondary fermentation but always transferred my brew into a separate bottling bucket to get as much trub free beer as possible.

Unless you have a conical or a tap right at the bottom to dump/remove all the yeast etc I personally wouldn't. Plus dry hopping will add to this if the hops/pellets are going in loose.

Regarding hops I always went 3-5 days, but have read 7 days is the limit.

[SwanJack]

I only ever do secondary if I'm adding fruit (currently drinking a wheat beer with mango, pineapple and papaya). I dry hop into primary once the krausen starts to break up. Some brewers dry hop half way through fermentation at high krausen. I never worry about trub going into the fermenter after reading an article on brulosophy which compared beers that had a lot of trub going in with another one with no trub. No difference in flavour. If you cold crash primary before bottling all the trub and dry hops will fall out and I keg straight from the fermenter

Edited by SwanJack on Monday 31st July 23:41

Edited by SwanJack on Monday 31st July 23:44

[Lotobear]

Thanks for the comments.

I've dry hopped today (I pre soak and add them in a fine mesh bag) and will bottle on Sunday so that's just over 2 weeks after brewing.

....we'll see how it turns out.

[SwanJack]

Do you dry hop with pellets or cones? I only use pellets and chuck them straight in. When I did use cones I used a weighted bag

Edited by SwanJack on Tuesday 1st August 22:06