You can't hurry love! Thus spake the Supremes, and it seems as if their sentiments are also true of IPA. With Doctor Mick kindly prepared to turn a blindish eye to my tardiness I ventured forth to the Brewery last night to check on the progress of my competition brew. I figured I could dry hop then package on Monday morning for a swift delivery and hopefully carbonation would complete faster than normal. If not all I had lost was a few bottles of homebrew.
Now, I am a great advocate of leaving yeast to do their thing, and then leaving them a bit more. I tend to allow a minimum of four weeks, so I rarely peer into a tub to see cloudy bubbling wort. However, due to leaning heavily on time and the colder weather, that's what I found. It also weighed in at a mere 1.020.
I can't see this being ready for bottling for a few weeks, so all I can say is thanks for the extended time but this just ain't going to be ready.
After all, it's a game of give and take.