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Hello all! Currently my gal and I have 5 gallons of an ipa in our fermentation bucket. We want to pull about a gallon out at bottling time and put it in a separate fermentor to dry hop it to see how it comes out differently from the other 4 gallons. I have a few questions.
First we are having to use a swamp cooler system as the weather in Chicago is hot right now. When we transfer to dry hop do we need to keep that in a swamp cooler as well! Or since the yeast will be done at this time can we leave it at our ac'ed room temp?
Second I have read that you should use hops with a 6 alpha rating or down but many dry hop you read about have higher alpha levels than that. Any thoughts on this?
Last I've read about three days is fine but it seems others do much longer. Is there a good gauge to use when dry hopping? Does it depend on the alpha level?
Thanks all!
First we are having to use a swamp cooler system as the weather in Chicago is hot right now. When we transfer to dry hop do we need to keep that in a swamp cooler as well! Or since the yeast will be done at this time can we leave it at our ac'ed room temp?
Second I have read that you should use hops with a 6 alpha rating or down but many dry hop you read about have higher alpha levels than that. Any thoughts on this?
Last I've read about three days is fine but it seems others do much longer. Is there a good gauge to use when dry hopping? Does it depend on the alpha level?
Thanks all!