Righlander
Well-Known Member
when do i add the hops? was planning on adding them after 14 days in the fermenter then leaving them in there 7 more days. or do i add them to the secondary after the beer is fully fermented?
I keg, so I delay dry hopping until about a week before I'm ready to put it online. That can be 2-3 months after kegging.
IMO - I really like to use pellet hops. They disperse well after adding them. Pellets are nice because you can just pour them in the primary without bags or a huge mess.
Secondly if you have the ablity to drop the temp of your beer down to 45 or lower the hops sink to the bottom making it just like any other beer to rack.
Third - It is best to dry hop about 1 deg balling before terminal gravity. The reason being is the last bit of fermentation will absorb any of the O2 you add to the beer with the hops.
Just my 2 cents, but it works like a charm with out bags and the mess of whole hops. Many breweries use pellets to dry hop and the ones I am talking about won medals in the GABF last year and the WBF.
When dry hopping, do the hops, pellet, leaf, whole etc need to be sanitized first? Or are they processed to be "clean" and the alcohol that is present in secondary enough to keep things infection free?
Thanks.
When dry hopping, do the hops, pellet, leaf, whole etc need to be sanitized first? Or are they processed to be "clean" and the alcohol that is present in secondary enough to keep things infection free?
Thanks.
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