I usually put my hops in the mesh cloth bags that can be found at most shops. It tends to help keep things clean. In recipes where I am worried that the bags might affect utilization, I just toss a few extra pellets in to compensate and forget about it. The extra ounce or 2 lost to liquid being retained in the bag has always seemed negligible to me.
I am however, doing a PTE clone. With the aggressive dry hop schedule, I am concerned that bagging these hops will have a significant impact on the final volume at bottling time.
I am making the kit from morebeer.com so all of the hops I'll be using are pellets. I figure I can get more surface area contact, and minimize the possibility that I'll lose a bunch of liquid to the bags, if I dry hop this one with the hops straight into the 6 gal better bottle that will serve as my secondary. The plan for now is to sanitize the secondary and put the first round of hops in before racking. Then just rack straight onto the hops. Round 2 will just go into the neck of the carboy, right on top of the beer.
I have minimal dry hopping experience. Is there anything else I should be looking out for?
I am however, doing a PTE clone. With the aggressive dry hop schedule, I am concerned that bagging these hops will have a significant impact on the final volume at bottling time.
I am making the kit from morebeer.com so all of the hops I'll be using are pellets. I figure I can get more surface area contact, and minimize the possibility that I'll lose a bunch of liquid to the bags, if I dry hop this one with the hops straight into the 6 gal better bottle that will serve as my secondary. The plan for now is to sanitize the secondary and put the first round of hops in before racking. Then just rack straight onto the hops. Round 2 will just go into the neck of the carboy, right on top of the beer.
I have minimal dry hopping experience. Is there anything else I should be looking out for?