I think this is the third time I've dry-hopped by throwing hops in loose. I am NEVER doing this again! I wrapped a muslin bag around the racking cane to minimize hop particle transer over to the bottling bucket, but what a disaster! It was marginally succesful at doing this but great at aerating the beer and probably oxidizing it in the process. Ugh! It somehow draws air down and eventually through the cane, producing thousands of tiny bubbles as it transfers the beer. After stopping and restarting 3 times, I finally tossed the muslin bag and let the hop particles go through. Very frustrating bottling day unfortunately.
From now on I'm dry-hopping inside a weighted-down hop sock. No more hop gunk and no risk of oxidizing the beer.
From now on I'm dry-hopping inside a weighted-down hop sock. No more hop gunk and no risk of oxidizing the beer.