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So, the process of the beer flowing through the mesh bag 'filter', does not oxygenate the beer or run the risk of oxygenating it?

Dcp / Tung, I am going to answer/ask follow up questions in part here. I appreciate the help and clarifications. In regards to both of what you said about temp at bottling, I will let it come back to room temp, it only makes sense. Also, I will try the ice bottle idea to try and keep the...

Well, I believe you have given me the confidence to go ahead and try and cold crash the next batch. I want to not only do it because of the hops but because i have also had a lot of trub in my past two batches and would like a cleaner beer. If i understand correctly, in removing that trub (and...

Yes, your assumptions are correct. I plan on adding the first hops when the bubbling in the airlock slows down to a crawl. I would typically do gravity checks to see if i am within .004 of estimated FG, but, as we have been discussing, don't want to add anymore oxygen than necessary; i.e. I...

Wow, no oxidation? I had thought about doing something similar----actually, when racking from the fermentor, to the bottling bucket----and that is running my wort/beer through my hopback with yet more fresh hops in it. BUT, i FEAR I would oxidize the heck out of it. Otherwise, i thought it...

yes, after you rack your beer to your bottling bucket you can then, later, pull the bag(s) out when you are washing/cleaning out your otherwise empty carboy. Although i may change to just adding the hops 'naked' / bag-less, i have been distributing my hops across two bags simply for the ease of...

Thanks!! Recipes are fun to build, now if i can just master the brew to bottle day, process. I agree, after a few rounds of trying IPA's i am going to have to up the amount of hops. It will just blow my BU:GU out of the water but trying to balance that has yet to yield me a hoppy IPA...

Thanks for the recommendations! How long should i anticipate it to take to have the pellet hop debris to fall out of the beer column? I think what i would like to do is, do a dry hop stage right before fermentation is done, and then, at some point (a week after ferm is done?), do another dry...

Tooldude, I have thought about that but my question is, if i am only dry hopping with pellets added straight to the wort/beer, will they settle out in just three days? I want to limit my dry hop on my next batch to 3 days, no more than 4. Also, here is what i did, i used 4 oz on my boil...

yup, that is what i was asking; i thought it to be beneficial to get the pellets down in the beer but have not heard of people doing that. That combined with the fact that if i were using whole hops to dry hop with they would float, like my bags, so, maybe i wouldn't need to weigh down the...

I agree, my tastes are green as well as my experience level but all i know, in regard to that first thread, was the noted change in the hop flavor (and aroma), which was less. Also then anticpated big hop aroma after dry hopping, but it was extremely muted. My experience level is 0 in trying...

Rob, I hear ya, and agree(!), i like you will skip the secondary next time. What i want to do though, in the next few days, is post another thread inquiring about primary fermentation hopping, and overall, this issue of oxidation. My concern there is okay, i dry hop with 0.004 or thereabouts...

Okay, I have read through some of the threads to see what could lead to this, but I don't think I have committed any of the listed errors. Here is my scenario / dilemma. I brewed a session IPA back at the end of June (I talk about this brew in the following thread where I discussed losing...

Yeah, that was a very technical article; I skimmed and will have to read again. I like the idea of aerating after the yeast has been pitched, but i did not get a sense of how much to aerate; again though, i skimmed the article. Where i am at a disadvantage is i am not using a closed system...

Thanks, OU. I will definitely check it out. I am still holding out hopes that the beer will be good (although maybe not as hoppy or aromatic as i would like) and will yet learn more from this batch. I think i have decided to heck with racking to secondary altogether, just like you mention...