Another Dry Hop question...sorry!

[Bartman]

OK, so I dry hop my IPA. I am almost a week in and the hops are still floating and I can see them going up and down in the beer. How do you guys/gals rack this to the bottling bucket?

 

[bhamripper]

What I do is crash cool the carboy for a few days. This will cause the hop matter to settle to the bottom.

 

[Yooper]

I just stick my racking cane/autosiphon down in there and siphon away. I like to put the end about 1/2 day in the beer, so that I'm between the top layer of floaties and the bottom layer of trub. There are a few stray floaties, but you shouldn't have any problem with them.

I know that some brewers sanitize a big paint straining bag and cover the end of the siphon (the one IN the beer, not the "out" side) to stop from sucking up debris, but I've never had to do that.

 

[snailsongs]

wiat a minute, am I the only one who sees that that carboy is actively fermenting? especially if things are "swimming" up and down in there...you should dry-hop only after fermentation is complete next time, and the hops will either sit on the top or slowly sink to the bottom eventually....

 

[Bartman]

I do see that. The beer was in the carboy for a few days before I dry hopped and my gravity was at the same for a week.

 

[Bartman]

I just check it and I do see some white foam under the hop goodness and the airlock bubbles once per minute. Could the hops casued the yeast to awake? This is what
I am dry hopping: IPA w/ OG 1.063 FG 1.015 pitched on a yeast cake of S-05 which ferrmented voilently, that is in another thread. It's been 21 days since brew day.

 

[Poobah58]

Put a surescreen on your racking tube:

 

[snailsongs]

I just check it and I do see some white foam under the hop goodness and the airlock bubbles once per minute. Could the hops casued the yeast to awake? This is what
I am dry hopping: IPA w/ OG 1.063 FG 1.015 pitched on a yeast cake of S-05 which ferrmented voilently, that is in another thread. It's been 21 days since brew day.

well, 21 days it should be nearing completion if not done long ago. I've enver had a fermentation take that long, so maybe that "krauesen" is really just hops after all. When I've dry-hopped w/ pellet hops in the past they do create a little film on top, and it doesn't always totally sink....I usually end up gently rocking the carboy daily to get the stuff to fall, and then use a strainer bag over my racking cane, as mentioned above - it works well.