Dry hop removal before bottling?

[whoaru99]

My tentative plan is to bottle this Sunday. The beer has been dry hopping in the primary for one week, the hops are in a hop sack weighted to sink to the bottom.

I am going out of town for most of the weekend starting a bit later today. Was thinking maybe pull the hop sack today and cold crash the beer until bottling. My concern is that since the hop sack is on the bottom, with quite a lot of weight, it's going to pull up a fair bit of cake bits and trub when I lift it out.

Does pulling the hop sack today and cold crashing sound like a good plan, or just leave the hop sack in the brew until bottling day and rack out with as little disturbance possible, accepting any additional loss from not draining the hop sack? It's 8.5oz of hop pellets so there is probably a fair amount absorbed.

 

[unionrdr]

How long has the hop sack been in there?

 

[whoaru99]

A week, give or take a day.

 

[unionrdr]

In that case,fish it out. Any longer in there might cause it to make grassy flavors...

 

[whoaru99]

Done deal, and temp turned down.

This stuff should be good, dare I say great!

OG and FG pretty much spot on for 6.2% like the original (Surly Furious), nice hop bitterness and great piney yet fruity aroma. This is going to be a long next ~3 weeks

 

[unionrdr]

It's hard to wait,but well worth it.