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So you’re tossing pellet hops in loose into an empty keg that hasn’t been purged and just relying on fermentation CO2 to purge the O2 from the keg? I’ve never tried this, so I don’t have any data to say this would be a problem, but intuitively, exposing hops to a keg full of ambient air at...

I'm guessing you'd want to fully purge the serving keg if you do that? Otherwise, the hops in that keg will see a lot of O2 while they're sitting at fermentation temps waiting for the fermentation gasses to reduce the O2 concentration in the serving keg. Next time I do dry hops in the serving...

This is pretty similar to what I ended up doing for my current batch, but I used the Janish dip tube screen in the serving keg instead of a CBDS. Do you have any dry hops added in your fermentation keg, or only the serving keg? With dry hops in fermentation, I'd be concerned about clogging the...

Thanks for the input - I'm sure that approach works well and gives good results, but there's a few considerations I've kicked around in my head which make me question whether they'll produce the result I'm looking for, depending on the beer: 1) Dry hopping with a few points left (an amount...

I made a 1.5L starter from one pack of which I split off 1/3rd to save for a future batch. I cooled for a few days and decanted prior to pitching. This went into 4.5 gallons of 1.066 OG wort at 64F, oxygenated with O2 for 45-60. Held it to 65F for the first 36 hours and then slowly ramped to 68...

Thanks for the recommendations - I was able to get the beer moved over to the dry hop keg last night using the CBDS without much issue. I sanitized and purged the dry hop keg, then attached CO2 to the liquid out while I opened the lid to add the dry hops. I went slow with the transfer and kept...

I just transferred the beer using WLP066 to the serving keg last night, so haven't tasted it yet, but the hydrometer sample i pulled smelled great and the attenuation was actually less that I usually get from WY1318 or A38. OG was 1.066 with a FG of 1.017 for an AA of 73%. Will find out how it...

Seems like the biggest difference in our processes that might affect haze stability is the use of whirlfloc. The only time I’ve used it in a NEIPA (first attempt at the style), I noticed that the wort was pretty clear going into the fermenter. Every time since then, I’ve left it out and the wort...

What is your typical dry hop schedule? Also, do you use whirlfloc?

Which yeast are you using in these beers? If you're not using WY1318 and a long-lasting haze is what you're after, give that one a try. I don't necessarily think that it is yeast in suspension that is the source of the haze, but yeast choice certainly plays a role in how long it sticks around...

Thanks for the suggestions - my CBDS does have the filter screen made for dry hopping. I have not yet tried moving the beer out of the keg, so there should be no clogged poppets or debris in the dip tube line yet. I have considered chilling the beer down to serving temps, but I don't have any...

So I brewed a NEIPA last weekend with the plan of testing out fermenting and serving in the same keg using the CBDS floating dip tube that I bought awhile back and never got much use out of. Unfortunately, I also had the thought that saving half my dry hop charge for after fermentation finished...

I wonder how that ended up clogging - I’d probably give up on it after that too. It’s worked like a charm for me the 4 times I’ve tried it. I bought some straight dip tubes to use with it that sit about 1” from the bottom of the keg. I haven’t tried serving from the primary using it, but I’m...

My CBDS has been sitting around unused for the most part since I bought it, but these success stories of serving heavily hopped NEIPA right out of the primary will probably have me giving it a try on my next batch this week. Regarding the Janis setup that clogged - is your liquid dip tube...

Thanks for the photo! I know the lighting and camera could be playing a role too, but going from my memory, I’d say the YCH cryohops I got were at least as dark and probably a shade more towards brown even than what you’ve got there. It good to see that the ones from farmhouse are looking &...

For those of you using the floating dip tubes in the FV - are you still able to do a closed gravity-fed transfer to the SV? Or do you need to use CO2 to apply pressure to the FV to keep the transfer going? I’m wondering whether the screen on the floating dip tubes to keep out dry hops would...

That’s interesting - i think I’ll definitely be holding off on trying them again until they’re a little more battle tested at the homebrew level. Though it seems a little counter intuitive that the N2 flushed 1oz packs in the original YCH package would have an issue, given that the regular...

Thanks for the input - I definitely wouldn't describe the cryo pellets I got as being more yellow than regular pellets or smelling more intense/dank than usual. They were mostly brown with a bit of yellow mixed in and a more muted/dull/musty aroma than the T90 pellets of the same variety. . We...

Not on sale, unfortunately - they were in those 1 oz N2 flushed bags, so I'd think they'd be well protected from O2? I'm in Texas though, so maybe they got stuck in a hot truck during shipping or something? Did the yellow ones that you used smell like normal hops? Probably not, just trying to...

So I've brewed this recipe (with a few minor tweaks here and there) 6 times now and I think I've somehow managed to make a batch that's probably going down the drain this time after the 5 earlier batches, which were all great. Basically, the beer is totally lacking in hop aroma and flavor and...