carrotmalt
Well-Known Member
I understand that during primary there is a nice blanket of CO2 hovering over my beer, protecting it from oxidation. I'm curious how much that blanket will hold up with me removing the lid, taking hydro samples, dry hopping, etc.
I'm currently 2.5 weeks into primary with my second batch using my kettle as my one and only fermenter. So I have leaf hops, cold break, yeast sludge and all right there in the kettle with a lid on it. I was thinking about dry hopping and thought I might as well just drop in another ounce right in with the rest of the gang. Then I started wondering about the blanket of CO2.
Is it getting smaller and smaller every time I open the lid? And if I just drop leaf hops in, is it going to further disturb/lose that layer of protection?
My other option I'm looking at for dry hopping is to use a mesh ball once it's in the keg, it just seems it'd be way easier to just drop them in now. I just don't want to end up with oxidation problems because I went the easy way out.
Any thought's other than RDWHAHB? (I'm already doing my best at that part )
I'm currently 2.5 weeks into primary with my second batch using my kettle as my one and only fermenter. So I have leaf hops, cold break, yeast sludge and all right there in the kettle with a lid on it. I was thinking about dry hopping and thought I might as well just drop in another ounce right in with the rest of the gang. Then I started wondering about the blanket of CO2.
Is it getting smaller and smaller every time I open the lid? And if I just drop leaf hops in, is it going to further disturb/lose that layer of protection?
My other option I'm looking at for dry hopping is to use a mesh ball once it's in the keg, it just seems it'd be way easier to just drop them in now. I just don't want to end up with oxidation problems because I went the easy way out.
Any thought's other than RDWHAHB? (I'm already doing my best at that part )