Looking for how others dry hop their beers. I am making an English style IPA and I plan on dry hopping it with some EKG. I have some muslin bags laying around and was wondering if I should throw it in them or just throw the hop pellets directly in the carboy? What do you suggest?
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Captain Damage
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I use a nylon paint straining bag. FME the standard muslin "gym sock" steeping bag mesh is too wide to hold the debris from pellet hops.
Guitarsky000
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I dry hop with out the bag. Yes, the bag helps keep the hops together, however, hops should float freely to really get that full potential out of the hops. If it's in a carboy it will (usually) stay on the top, and if you use a syphon, you shouldn't get any hops out of it. Bottom line -either way is fine!
Captain Damage
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I put a few sanitized marbles in the bag to weight it and suspend it with a piece of sanitized string so it's just about int eh middle of the carboy.
just toss them freely into your secondary and rack on top, then when you transfer to your bottling bucket/keg, just attach that sanitized muslin bag to the outlet end of your tubing and it will catch any potential hop debris.
works like a charm for me.
works like a charm for me.
terrapinj
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last few times i've dryhopped i added hops directly to primary about 3 weeks into fermentation with no bag
i used a paint strainer bag over the end of the siphon when i racked to bottling bucket
i used a paint strainer bag over the end of the siphon when i racked to bottling bucket
badhabit
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I asked a very similar querstion a few months ago and as a result of the input here started reacking onto the top of the hops at secondary. That seems to be a great addition to the dry hop process. As for the to bag or not to bag question....what ever is the easiest to you. I think it all comes down to how you want toclean up the mess. I toss in the whole flower and use a bag with marbles otherwise.
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