Gravitas IPA...short timeline

I'm new to kegging, but I just brewed an Imperial West Coast Red, 2 week primary, 1 week in keg with dry hops on gas set for 2.5 vols CO2 at 60*F (garage), pulled hops, cooled, drink first pint at 3 week mark. The carb while dry hopping seemed to work well. Worth a shot maybe?

 

I would also suggest the carb while dry hopping. If you dry hop it on the 18th, hit it with the gas then. When you go to remove the hops, you can purge the keg and add the second round.

Only issue, is you might see some slight foaming on the second addition, but will probably be fine. Might move fast. I haven't ever had an issue in doing that, but others have reported it.

You could easily carb it in that time frame though. I've done the 30 psi for 4 days, and then drop it to 10 for the remainder of the week at keg temp and had a pretty good carbed beer. Obviously another 3-5 days would be excellent, but....

Try the dry hop and carb on the 1st go around, and you won't have to rush the carbing.. Gives you over 2 weeks

 

Yeah, you're good time wise. If you hit or near your FG pretty quick (ca June 12th) you could always do the first dry hop with active yeast in suspension in the primary for 5-6 days (ala Firestone Walker), fine with biofine or cold crash then hit it with a second dry hop in the keg and carbonate from the 18th on (2 weeks at serving pressure seems more fool proof than the 40/25/10).

If you don't fine much, gelatin or biofine work great, but stay the f*ck away from sparkalloid, unless you want bitter, malty, non-hoppy gravitas IPA.