So I have brewed up a Kumquat IPA which I am rightfully calling the "Cali Kumquat IPA" It is going to be around 104 IBU's, Suggested Starting Gravity of 1.054 which mine into the fermentor was 1.052.
I have been fermenting it for 5 days now at 19.8 Celcius and took a gravity reading today which shows it at 1.026
Suggested Final Gravity is supposed to be at 1.012. My question to the pros out there is simple, I am going to turn the temperature up to 20.3 Celcius and let it go for another few days to see if I can activate the yeast, almost perform a Diacetyl rest in essence, then take it down to to 18 Celsius and let it go another week with the dry hopping addition of 2 ounces of Mosaic, and one ounce of Galaxy hops. I am curious does anyone see an issue with this. After which I will purge the trub and yeast, cold crash for four days at 33 deg. F. and then bottle and keg.
I really want to try and hit that 1.012 gravity though and am perplexed as to why i did not get it i the beginning. I pitched three viles of yeast into 66 deg. wort and it went off pretty quick with a four day fermentation.