Dry hopping question

Fuuuuck. I was so pumped to bottle tonight.

Oh, well. Thanks.

You can also use panty hose for a cheap and readily available hop bag.


Don't skimp on the dry hop!

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Not sure what all equipment you have but if you're using pellet hops you might want to find a nylon hop bag to dry hop with so you don't end up with hop particles in your finished beer.

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i tried to use a bag and it got stuck trying to get it in the carboy, and I got pissed because the pellets were dissolving, so I just dumped them in

gonna take forever to screen that out when transfering to the bottling bucket

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Stick a bag on the end of your racking cane.

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nice


i have a pretty fine mesh strainer I normally use that will probably catch it all without needing the screen in my funnel, but I may try the bag method instead

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i have a pretty fine mesh strainer I normally use that will probably catch it all without needing the screen in my funnel, but I may try the bag method instead

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Probably don't want to be using a strainer or funnel post fermentation?

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I was reading a Pliny recipe and they did two stages of dry hopping.

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Pliny and most of the other big DIPAs are just bittering hops(extracts) then late hop and dry hop the frick out of them.

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why is that?

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Not exactly sure how you're using it but when transferring beer around post fermentation you want to be careful to not slosh or splash the beer in any way. As closed of a transfer you can get as possible is best.

Siphon in the carboy down to a vessel that's been purged with CO2 or just by being careful not to let it splash.

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so it's just a matter of oxygenating the beer? I normally transfer from a carboy to a bottling bucket and place the lid on it, not sealing it though. I don't have a way to purge with CO2

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Yes. No worries about purging just don't splash it when you transfer.