CortexBomb
Well-Known Member
I've just recently gotten into home brewing, and I'm only now getting ready to bottle my second batch, which is a PM Pale that I dry-hopped with Amarillo and Columbus pellets.
Here's the thing, before I added the hops to the secondary I read through many pages of discussion on dry-hopping in various places. Many folks suggested adding the hops to a sterilized bag with marbles so the hops would float, others suggested just dumping the things directly into the secondary so they would float around more and impart their tasty oils to the beer.
I opted for option 2, with the thought being that I could use my large double screen filter with a piece of sterilized cheese cloth in it at bottling time. Well, it's about a day before bottling, and I'm concerned about oxidation. My filter sits in the top of my bottling bucket (as it's also used for filtering the hops and spices out of the kettle after I've chilled the wort) and the beer will have to fall into the bottom of the bucket through the filter if I try to get the hop gunk out that way.
Suggestions or thoughts on this? Is using the cheese cloth/steel filter workable, or is there some other technique that would work better?
Thanks in advance.
Here's the thing, before I added the hops to the secondary I read through many pages of discussion on dry-hopping in various places. Many folks suggested adding the hops to a sterilized bag with marbles so the hops would float, others suggested just dumping the things directly into the secondary so they would float around more and impart their tasty oils to the beer.
I opted for option 2, with the thought being that I could use my large double screen filter with a piece of sterilized cheese cloth in it at bottling time. Well, it's about a day before bottling, and I'm concerned about oxidation. My filter sits in the top of my bottling bucket (as it's also used for filtering the hops and spices out of the kettle after I've chilled the wort) and the beer will have to fall into the bottom of the bucket through the filter if I try to get the hop gunk out that way.
Suggestions or thoughts on this? Is using the cheese cloth/steel filter workable, or is there some other technique that would work better?
Thanks in advance.