Mickaleen
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I'm assuming this is not a good idea but thought I would throw it out there. Do you have to rack to a secondary if dry hopping is recquired? Just curious.
I have about an OZ of mixed hop pellets (willamette, fuggle, simcoe) left over from a brown ale i brewed 15 days ago. I am thinking about dry hopping with the left over assortment. the pellets have been in a ziplock back in the fridge for 15 days. are these still safe to dry hop with? any precaution i should take before tossing them in?
If you dry hop during fermentation, the large amount of co2 that is being produced will drive those volatile aroma esters right out your airlock, instead of in the beer where you want it. So it sort of defeats the purpose of dry hopping for aroma anyway.
Ya well I used the Willamette and Fuggle as bittering and flavor and Simcoe as my finishing. When I was done I just mixed all the pellets together in the same bag. We shall see how it turns out in about a week. I have never dry hopped with more than one hop variety.they should be totally fine to use for dry hopping. i usually keep my hops in the freezer but whatever. ive never used fuggle or willamette for DH so im not sure what kinda aroma your gonna get. should be ok for a brown i guess. simcoe is the ****...
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