Double IPA - Dry Hop Sediment

[Johnnyquest85]

I bottled my double IPA yesterday after two weeks of dry hopping. During the bottling process alot of the hops started to kick up and in turn made it to the bottles. I bottle by auto-sipphoning from a glass carboy to the bottles and it has worked great till this time because of the hops.

I am wondering if they will settle to the bottom of the bottle while they condition or if I will have hops floating around in my beer when I pour? Would getting a little tea strainer to filter out the hops as I pour the beer be a bad idea? Other then using a hops bag during the 2nd fermentation has anyone found a good way to bottle with all those hops?

 

[beerkrump]

You can try straining, but that will cause extra foaming.

I transfer to a bottling bucket and use a paint strainer bag in the bucket to catch the hop debris.

 

[terrapinj]

i had some hop flakes make their way into my cal common after it was dry hopped and bottled - i haven't noticed any floating in the beer at all, it seems to have settled with the yeast sediment. you prob dry hopped with way more hops than i did (.75 oz) so may be different results

 

[cadarnell]

You can try straining, but that will cause extra foaming.

I transfer to a bottling bucket and use a paint strainer bag in the bucket to catch the hop debris.

yea ... me too ... here's a feed I had on this subject a few weeks back ... the beer is tasting great too .. no signs of oxidation

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/filtering-out-hops-after-dry-hopping-242108/

 

[Johnnyquest85]

i had some hop flakes make their way into my cal common after it was dry hopped and bottled - i haven't noticed any floating in the beer at all, it seems to have settled with the yeast sediment. you prob dry hopped with way more hops than i did (.75 oz) so may be different results

Yeah it was a Pliny clone so there was quite a bit of hops. Hopefully it will settle at the bottom of the bottle. If I make this again I will either transfer to the bottling bucket or use a hop bag with marbles.