Really? So if a fly, bird, or other bug craps bacteria on my hop plants, they are sanitary enough to throw into my beer? Sounds fishy to me.
Just last week I saw a picture here of an infected batch. Everyone said "yep, it was the hop bag" because hops don't have bacteria? Yet IIRC he boiled the bag first. I'm not a food scientist, but what little research I've done says 165 degrees will kill just about anything. Thus boiling would be sufficient.
We spend all this time freaking out about sanitation and religiously soaking stuff in starsan that ends up in our beer, yet we throw un-sanitized hops into it in the end.
Yet, dry hopping has been done forever without consequence.
Just saying.
I'm confused.
I'm yet to make anything that requires dry-hopping, but from what I've read, you can just soak them in vodka before tossing them in.
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