I brewed a ten gallon batch of a pale ale recipe. I brewed the entire batch using leaf hops and my recipe called for 3 ounces of dry hops. I decided to adjust the recipe slightly and put one ounce of hops in one of my glass carboy secondary fermenter and two ounces in the other.
My technique was to put the dry hops in first and rack my beer on top of the hops. In both carboys the hops rose to the top.
Here is my dilemma. The carboy with ounce has good contact with the hops. The second carboy with two ounces appears to have about an ounce of hops in contact with the beer but there is a second ounce of hops just sitting on top of those not appearing to be making any contact.
I've waited seven days and the hops have not settled at all.
My question is this. Do I sanitize my wine thief and slowly push down on the hops to get them to come in contact with the beer?
My technique was to put the dry hops in first and rack my beer on top of the hops. In both carboys the hops rose to the top.
Here is my dilemma. The carboy with ounce has good contact with the hops. The second carboy with two ounces appears to have about an ounce of hops in contact with the beer but there is a second ounce of hops just sitting on top of those not appearing to be making any contact.
I've waited seven days and the hops have not settled at all.
My question is this. Do I sanitize my wine thief and slowly push down on the hops to get them to come in contact with the beer?