Aging/kegging question

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Iceman6409

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So I made a batch of Brooklyn Summer Ale. The recipe call for one week of dry hopping. I will be kegging this beer. However I would like to age it for a month or two before starting to drink it. It ages very nicely. My question is I will be dropping the dry hops in the carboy for a week. From there would I rack to another carboy to get the hops out and let it sit in the carboy for a while longer and then keg? Thoughts?
 
If you use a hop bag weighted with marbles to transfer is needed, just pull the bag out at the end of the week, reseal the keg and purge the headspace with CO2. Loose hops in the keg may well present the problem of clogging the liquid out poppet with hop material unless you have a screen over the dip tube or a Clear Beer draft system instead of the dip tube.
 
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