IsaacM
Member
Hello Braumeisters,
I'm in the middle of fermenting 5 gallons of Vinnie Cilurzo's Pliny the Elder double IPA (found here in this file: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/attachments/0000/6351/doubleIPA.pdf) and it calls for dry hopping with a bunch of hops.
I've never dry hopped, so I have quite a few questions I hope you won't mind:
- Do you prefer to dry hop with pellets or leafed hops if it even makes a difference?
- Do you throw them into a muslin bag, or let them free float?
- Is it true that hops are anti-microbial like I heard from a friend (yeast killers)?
- Is double pitching as effective as a yeast starter if the massive amounts of hops in this recipe really do kill the yeast off?
- With a small batch like this, does it really make that big of a difference to add dry hops at 2 separate times days apart, or can I just dump it all in at once and have it taste pretty close and avoid the hassle/risk of reopening my fermenter?
- I don't usually rack my ales to a secondary, but this seems like a good time to consider doing that, being a pretty light/clear beer with the hops going in. Do you like to rack to secondary before adding dry hops?
Current plan is wait 7-ish days for fermentation to die down (1.071 gravity will take a bit to settle my airlock down!), rack to secondary, throw all the hops into a muslin sack/brew in a bag mesh and drop them in, and wait the full 12-14 days the recipe calls for.
I feel like I've got a pretty dang wide margin of error here since the $20 of hops on this recipe will probably cover up any of my mistakes, but I at least want to try to do it right
Thanks all
I'm in the middle of fermenting 5 gallons of Vinnie Cilurzo's Pliny the Elder double IPA (found here in this file: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/attachments/0000/6351/doubleIPA.pdf) and it calls for dry hopping with a bunch of hops.
I've never dry hopped, so I have quite a few questions I hope you won't mind:
- Do you prefer to dry hop with pellets or leafed hops if it even makes a difference?
- Do you throw them into a muslin bag, or let them free float?
- Is it true that hops are anti-microbial like I heard from a friend (yeast killers)?
- Is double pitching as effective as a yeast starter if the massive amounts of hops in this recipe really do kill the yeast off?
- With a small batch like this, does it really make that big of a difference to add dry hops at 2 separate times days apart, or can I just dump it all in at once and have it taste pretty close and avoid the hassle/risk of reopening my fermenter?
- I don't usually rack my ales to a secondary, but this seems like a good time to consider doing that, being a pretty light/clear beer with the hops going in. Do you like to rack to secondary before adding dry hops?
Current plan is wait 7-ish days for fermentation to die down (1.071 gravity will take a bit to settle my airlock down!), rack to secondary, throw all the hops into a muslin sack/brew in a bag mesh and drop them in, and wait the full 12-14 days the recipe calls for.
I feel like I've got a pretty dang wide margin of error here since the $20 of hops on this recipe will probably cover up any of my mistakes, but I at least want to try to do it right
Thanks all