Dry hopping w/ whole leaf

scrambledegg81 · Oct 11, 2009

First let me say what a massive PITA this was! Considering the opening of the average carboy is about 12 microns wide, there was quite the leafy (yet tantalizingly aromatic) mess.

But considering I flaked and forgot to grab a hop bag from my LHBS (and they're closed today & tomorrow), I decided to go full-tilt and just dump em.

Oh, the glory. :rockin:

JOHN51277 · Oct 11, 2009

Lookin good. I hope there is a cover (tee shirt) or something going over that carboy with it being hit by some of that sunshine coming through that window. If not the chance of skunking is there. I just slip an old dark tee shirt over mine and use a clothes pin to secure the top tightly around the neck of the carboy. I am guessing some sort of IPA there??

scrambledegg81 · Oct 11, 2009

Aye-a clone of Stone's Ruination IPA. One week til blastoff...

As for the covering bit, my iphone makes it look a lot brighter than it really is. 99.999% of the light is all reflecting, so I'm not too worried about it skunking. I took a quick taste prior to dry hopping and it's phenomenal.

iddqd · Oct 11, 2009

Looks wonderful. It really made me want to buy a carboy (they're a bit hard to get here in Sweden) just to see the dry hopping better.

KayaBrew · Oct 11, 2009

How much beer is that? 5 gallons? If so, that carboy must be HUGE! :drunk:

(It also looks delicious!)

scrambledegg81 · Oct 11, 2009

Nah-it's a standard 6 or 6.5 (if I remember right). Sittin' pretty at 5 even.

Cyprus · Oct 11, 2009

I have dry hopped with out a hop bag before.. The problem I ran into was the hops plugging up my auto siphon when transferring. So I just sanitized a make shift hop bag (5 gal nylon paint strainer bag from home depot) and slipped it over my auto siphon and then proceeded to transfer with out it getting plugged up.. Just a little tip that might help.

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