cold crash & dry hop

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Billybrewer09

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I have an IPA that's been in primary for 2 1/2 weeks with US-05 and its still very cloudy and I am wanting to dry hop.
can I do them at the same time or should I dry hop and then cold crash it a couple days before I bottle it. Or should I not worry about cold crashing at all.
 
Why not let it go another week to see if the yeast clean things up and clear your beer up a little bit - then dry hop, then keg?
 
I prefer dry-hopping off the yeast. It just seems to me that the yeast cake absorbs too much of the delicious hop oils that I want to absorb, dagnabbit!
 
Thanks everyone for the input.
I normally do not secondary but that seems to be the what I may need to do to get this beer to clear...
I will wait awhile longer to see if it clears more on its own then dry hop and crash it a couple days before I keg it.
I was just kind of worried that crashing would diminish the dry hop..
I think the 96 IBU's may hold up...
thanks again...
 
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