And by that I mean dropping hops in the beer, nothing more.
I brew in plastic bucket and bottle directly from primary.
The bucket has a snap on lid. In order to open it a leaver is pulled on the side and the thing usually creaks loudly and vibrates. For this reason, I just don't open the lid fearing stuff may dislodge and fall in the beer.
So that leaves me with a small technical problem on how to dry hop (I've never done it before but I am looking forward to brew my first IPA in the near future).
An idea would be to sit the lid on top and not to close it tightly.
Another idea would be to put the dry hops in a bag along with a magnetic stir bar and keep them suspended against the lid using a second magnet. Once dry hop day arrives, just release the magnet.
Bad ideas? Should I just open the damn thing?
I reckon if I don't splash the wort around while moving the bucket, there shouldn't be anything on the lid to fall off during the rather violent action of opening the lid ...
I brew in plastic bucket and bottle directly from primary.
The bucket has a snap on lid. In order to open it a leaver is pulled on the side and the thing usually creaks loudly and vibrates. For this reason, I just don't open the lid fearing stuff may dislodge and fall in the beer.
So that leaves me with a small technical problem on how to dry hop (I've never done it before but I am looking forward to brew my first IPA in the near future).
An idea would be to sit the lid on top and not to close it tightly.
Another idea would be to put the dry hops in a bag along with a magnetic stir bar and keep them suspended against the lid using a second magnet. Once dry hop day arrives, just release the magnet.
Bad ideas? Should I just open the damn thing?
I reckon if I don't splash the wort around while moving the bucket, there shouldn't be anything on the lid to fall off during the rather violent action of opening the lid ...