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CBMbrewer

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In January I brewed a Russian imperial stout with an og of 1.16, a rough clone of dog fish head's world wide stout.
As soon as I transferred it into secondary for bulk aging, about a month after brew day, I began dry hopping it everyday with 1 oz of Amarillo hops for 10 days.
I have tasted it many times throughout these past months and it is now nice and smooth and drinkable for the 17% stout that it is.
In previous tastes the hop aroma has been huge, as I want it, but now the flavor is great but a lot of that hop aroma is gone :(
Continuing with my plan I have now started dry hopping again with 1 oz of Amarillo for 6 days, wait another week, then bottle.
Is all the aroma from the initial dry hopping gone for good or is there a way that I can rouse all the hops now settled at the bottom of the carboy to re infuse the beer while not oxygenating it?
Also, when bottling should I take into account the relatively large amount of sugar still left in the beer when priming so I don't end up over priming and creating bottle bombs?
(I will be re pitching some champagne yeast before bottling)
 
I don't think you are going to revive 9+ month old dry hops. Add some more dry hops now if you want the beer to have a hoppier nose and like the base beer enough at this point in time to be willing to drink it in the next couple of weeks.
 
Thanks koopa! I've already started to dry hop it again and will be bottling within the next 2 weeks.
 
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