I'm looking for your advice and rationale on this. It's my first time dry hopping (making a PseudoSue clone here). Currently on day 1 of fermentation.
I'm planning to add 3oz of cryo citra (25%) directly to my beer. It's currently fermenting in a fermzilla all rounder. I have another vessel that I can use to close transfer into that I was considering adding the dry hops to first. Here's my plan:
I feel like 1 or 2 would minimize O2 better but I don't fully understand why I would choose 1 over the other. Any advice you could give me would be fantastic!
I'm planning to add 3oz of cryo citra (25%) directly to my beer. It's currently fermenting in a fermzilla all rounder. I have another vessel that I can use to close transfer into that I was considering adding the dry hops to first. Here's my plan:
- Wait 3 days after fermentation is complete
- Cold crash 48 hrs
- Add dry hops to 2nd all rounder and purge with CO2
- Closed transfer from primary to secondary
- Let dry hops sit in secondary for 4 or 5 days (at what temp do you think?)
- Closed transfer to serving keg
- Is it worth using a secondary in this case? Should I just cold crash and dry hop in the serving keg instead (purging it 1st, etc). What's the advantage to using a secondary here? I keep my kegs in my keezer and I wouldn't expect the keg to last much longer than 2 weeks max.
- Should I skip the cold crash between transfers? Maybe add dryhops and purge secondary then closed transfer directly. Let it sit for 4 or 5 days in the secondary then crash and move to serve?
- Just add direct to primary 3 days after fermentation is complete, purge headspace with CO2, let sit for 4/5 days then crash and transfer?
- A different method all together that I'm missing?
I feel like 1 or 2 would minimize O2 better but I don't fully understand why I would choose 1 over the other. Any advice you could give me would be fantastic!