I'm making a double IPA that calls for dry hops after 1 week. Its been in the primary a week and I plan to rack to carboy, probably tonight and add the dry hops.
Do I just put them in the hop bag, drop in the carboy, then rack the wort? Or sanitize the bag first somehow?
They LHBS guy said the hop bag was already clean enough (in the plastic) and there wasn't much risk of contamination because there is alcohol in the wort now. Is that true?
I'm also planning to bottle after 12-14 days since reading that a short fermentation/aging is preferable at high temps - and it 115 outside. I can't afford to keep my house at 73 much longer.
But does the temperature after bottling matter much? If so, for how long? I've let my house get up to 90 or so when on vacation and it didn't seem to hurt my older brews I have bottled in storage.
Do I just put them in the hop bag, drop in the carboy, then rack the wort? Or sanitize the bag first somehow?
They LHBS guy said the hop bag was already clean enough (in the plastic) and there wasn't much risk of contamination because there is alcohol in the wort now. Is that true?
I'm also planning to bottle after 12-14 days since reading that a short fermentation/aging is preferable at high temps - and it 115 outside. I can't afford to keep my house at 73 much longer.
But does the temperature after bottling matter much? If so, for how long? I've let my house get up to 90 or so when on vacation and it didn't seem to hurt my older brews I have bottled in storage.