Hawaiibboy
Well-Known Member
Should I dry hop my planned 4-7days then cold crash for an additional 3-5days or should I include my dry hopping into my cold crash?
pannell77 said:i usually dry hop for around 10 days so I would go with your first plan.
basilchef said:No, ten days then crash. I do it every time. I brew mostly ipa's and have experimented with massive dry hops with no grassy effects. 7 - 10 days is ideal to extract the hop oils.
Bazaar said:Ten days is my standard and I never get grassy flavors or aroma, and I almost always gelatin+cold crash. The only time I've experienced grassiness is when I dry-hopped a beer, then forgot about it--about 45 days.
And you don't get a grassy flavor/aroma? I have heard of a serious grassy-ness to beer that is dry hoped for a period over 7days.
Yooper said:It might not get "grassy", but I find that the freshest dryhopping aroma occurs when I dryhop for about 5 days. I've gone as short as 3 with very good results, though. My "sweet spot" is 5 days.
If I was cold crashing, I'd dryhop for 5 days and then cold crash. The reason is that dryhopping "works" faster at room temperatures and really slows down at cold temperatures.
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