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The bags were sealed as tightly as they could be. I think the thinness of a sandwich bag allowed the hop odor-- I mean fragrance-- to escape, while the thicker freezer probably would have held it in better.

I had some hop pellets from opened packages that I needed to wait a week or two to use for dry hopping. Stored them in ziploc sandwich bags and put them in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator. Figured it might be overkill to use a freezer bag (those things aren't cheap!) since I was...

Arguably more surface area that way, so that should help. My concerns were whether the hop sludge would settle to the bottom and possibly having hop particles floating around in the bottles. The sludge did mostly settle by around day 6 with some gentle encouragement (slightly shaking the...

I don't have anything else to add, other than to say I brewed the same kit from Paradise a few weeks ago and it turned out to be pretty awesome. I was hoping it would be as good as their All American IPA kit I brewed, but I think it's better. And this is based on an impatient sample a mere...