Is there any benefit whatsoever in keeping a beer in fermentation post-final gravity?
A beer can reach final gravity and the yeast may still have cleaning up to do. Converting sugar to alcohol isnt all they do.
Kind of depends on the beer and its complexity or the need to condition and mellow. In general I’ll leave a beer a few days after fg just to get a schedule going and then simply crash it cold to prepare for keg or bottle.
If you’re dry hopping it then obviously you would do that at fg or a tad before YMMV, I wait for fg before dry hop additions.
Yeah, I realize that now. Not a huge deal, but figured my beer may go another day or two past my three-day planned dry hopping.
+1 to the above. With my work/family schedule it’s not uncommon for a beer to sit in primary for 3 weeks. It’s not needed necessarily, but all I know is my beers never, ever have diacetyl, acetaldehyde, etc. So the yeast are getting ample time to clean up and drop out (most strains) before I keg. As for dry hopping an extra couple days past 3 days, no worries.
No big deal, I like to dry hop 5-7 days usually, sometimes though plans change…I’m usually not disappointed:)
Its usually a good thing to leave it a little longer. Its one of the few times my laziness pays off.