OSUmoney83 Well-Known Member Joined Jan 10, 2005 Messages 111 Reaction score 4 Location In the heart of buckeye nation, now (2012) in Scot Feb 18, 2005 #1 will dry hopping in the secondary add any bitterness or just aroma?
Janx Well-Known Member Joined Dec 29, 2004 Messages 1,677 Reaction score 31 Location San Francisco Bay Area Feb 18, 2005 #2 Just aroma. You need to heat the hops to extract the bitterness. Thus the long boil for bittering hops. It seems to me that more aroma hops sometimes make the beer seem more bitter, FWIW, but dry hops pretty much add aroma.
Just aroma. You need to heat the hops to extract the bitterness. Thus the long boil for bittering hops. It seems to me that more aroma hops sometimes make the beer seem more bitter, FWIW, but dry hops pretty much add aroma.