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My dude... just help me out here. Are you suggesting that I dry hop in the primary after ferm is done and then just go straight to a bottling bucket from there? If so, hop bag or no hop bag (for pellets). How long? Any other tips?

Exactly what I'm suggesting. Just toss your pellets directly in the primary fermentor. You get the full effect of dry hops after 2-3 days at most. You can leave them in longer of course, but most of the hops work is done after the first 48 hours really.

Trust me, I used to dry hop in secondary. After discussions with several people, including several professional brewers, I determined I was just wasting my time and creating unnecessary work for no real benefit. Been fermenting in one vessel ever since, and the beer turns out just as good.

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Posted by LSUBoo

Knoxville, TN

Member since Mar 2006

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Posted on 4/15/15 at 3:54 pm to BMoney

I've done it both ways and had great beers all the same. Lately I've been taking the lazier approach and just dry-hopping toward the end of fermentation in the primary vessel.

I am going to rack the mead I brewed sometime in the next few days, but that's for entirely different reasons.

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Posted by rbWarEagle

Member since Nov 2009

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Posted on 4/15/15 at 3:59 pm to BMoney

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Trust me, I used to dry hop in secondary. After discussions with several people, including several professional brewers, I determined I was just wasting my time and creating unnecessary work for no real benefit. Been fermenting in one vessel ever since, and the beer turns out just as good.

Alright, so are you bagging the racking cane like Bottomland suggested?

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