bottling day! how do I filter out hop pellets from dry hop??

Hi all,

So I brewed an IPA, then dry hopped with 2 oz of hop pellets, just threw them in the primary after 2 weeks. Now its been 2 weeks since dry hop, how do I filter out the pellet debris? Will it have sank to the bottom? I've read some use pantyhose? But I'm confused as to where you attach the pantyhose...do you put it on the siphon that goes in to the primary? Or do you put it on the end that goes into the bottling bucket??

Thanks!!!

 

You can do a couple of things.

1. use hop bags the kind youwould use for the boil. Sanitize a hop bag and a rubber band and attach to the auto-siphon. Pull it up tight and then start siphioning.

2. If you have no hop bags you can use cheese cloth and attach in the same way.

Again make sure they are soaked in sanitizer for a few minutes. You attach both on the tube part of the siphon that goes into the fermenter. You don't want to filter on the end that goes into the bottling bucket b/c it will oxegenate the beer and produce off flavors.

Both ways your siphon may get slow or stop all together so you may have to punp the siphon extra to finish the job.

 

cool, Thanks a lot!!!

 

Yep. 1 gallon paint strainers from Lowe’s (et al) are cheap and last forever. Use a simple zip tie.

 

I just rack my beer. After aging and crashing my hop debris sinks into yeast cake.

 

I've only dry hopped once but I also used a hop bag to filter. It worked really well but in the future I'm planning on putting the hops in the bag from the beginning.

 

5 gal. paint filters will fit over the mouth of you bottling bucket. Just pull it out to the bottom of bucket so no air is added.

Kent

 

+1 on used a sanitized hop bag tied to the racking cane. I do this for all my beer dry hopped or not.

 

I've had clogging problems using a bag over the racking cane or autosiphon. What has worked well for me is to put a large bag into the bottling bucket. I have a jumbo size grain bag I got from AHS, but a paint strainer might be big enough to work. I boil the bag to sanitize it, then put it into the sanitized bottling bucket and drape the excess material over the outside of the bucket. (The bag should reach all the way to the bottom of the bucket to avoid aerating the beer.) Then I tie a bungee cord around the outside to hold the bag in place. Rack into the bucket and when finished just lift out the bag and all the hop debris will be inside it. You'll need another bucket or something next to your bottling bucket to put the dripping bag into.

 

i just recently did this and still ended up with a ton of hop sediment in my keg. the small hop particles ended up drifting out of the muslin bag in the carboy. kind of bumed to share the cloudiest home brew with friends, i still enjoy it and the aroma is growing daily with the sediment, but no one wants to drink it.