I bottled a 90 min ipa clone last night. I dry hopped directly in the primary. I've dry hopped with no muslin bags before and did it for this batch. The 90 minute ipa clone called for a large amount of hops to dry hop with. When transferring to the bottling bucket I did my best to not get hops to transfer. While bottling I noticed and occasional chunk going into the bottle. A good number of the bottles have a leaf or two of the hops the size of a crushed red pepper flake. Is this going to effect the taste or give it a grassy flavor?
Hop leaves in the bottle
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I wouldn't worry too much about something that small getting through. I've had some hops get through to my keg during the transfer and I never noticed any grassy or other off flavors.
No you wont notice any off flavors, they make these specifically to put hops and other things in bottles(http://www.theflavorbomb.com/). I throw a bag of hops to dry hop my kegs and leave them till the keg is empty with no issues.
bobeer
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I always dryhop without a muslin bag and I've gotten a few hop leafs in my bottles/keg and I've never had any grassy flavors or anything. I think you'll be fine. As the bottles settle out after they carb up the leaves should fall out and get stuck in the yeast trub in the bottom of the bottle.
