dry spicing and hopping help

I'm going to be racking my white IPA to secondary tomorrow,
planning on dry-hopping with an oz of cascade and oz of citra

I also just cut some fresh lemonbomb and sage from SWMBO's garden

I'm a little worried about sanitation with the herbs.
I was thinking about throwing them in some boiing water for a few minutes and toss the water and the herbs all in together and rack on top of it

apologies if this has been answered already but I searched and didnt find anything

Making a tea would probably work fine. You could likely also get away with spraying the herbs with starsan thoroughly as long as they're clean of all debris.

tre9er said:

Making a tea would probably work fine. You could likely also get away with spraying the herbs with starsan thoroughly as long as they're clean of all debris.

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thanks for the advice man, never thought of using star-san, i like that idea

Put the spices in a little vodka...let it sit for a few days then strain out the spices. This is the best way to go for adding spices IMO

Calichusetts said:

Put the spices in a little vodka...let it sit for a few days then strain out the spices. This is the best way to go for adding spices IMO

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ya i was thinking about that one too,

should i add the vodka and the herbs themselves as well or just the vodka?

TedsExcellentAdventure said:

ya i was thinking about that one too,

should i add the vodka and the herbs themselves as well or just the vodka?

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Strain the spice...I add it to my secondary before transfer but you could add it to your keg or bottling bucket if you don't secondary