Hey guys, this is day 8 of my primary fermentation in a conical. At first, I was thinking of racking to a carboy for secondary fermentation and dry hopping there, but after reading several posts here, it looks like it might be just as easy to dry hop directly in the conical and skip the secondary step altogether.
With the carboy approach, I was thinking of cold crashing the carboy in my kegerator before kegging. If I just leave the beer in the conical until kegging then there is no way to cold crash as my conical wont fit into my kegerator.
Few questions:
1. Can you cold crash in the keg before carbonating? If so, I could drain the conical to the keg then throw the corny in the kegerator.
2. Should I just not worry about the cold crash at all? I did use irish moss during the boil.
3. Aside from perhaps gaining some clarity out of moving to secondary, is there any other benefit of racking to a secondary other than freeing up the conical for my next batch?
4. Lastly, with dryhopping, I have to add 3oz of citra today for dryhopping. i have pellets and currently do not have a hop bag. Would I just remove the lid from the conical and sprinkle the pellets evenly across the top of the beer then put the lid back?
This was my first all grain batch ever, and I missed on my efficiency, so I am not expecting perfection at this point. That being said, I am more inclined to just drop the pellets directly and "let it happen". Hopefully with the conical, they will mostly drop anyway.
Thoughts?
With the carboy approach, I was thinking of cold crashing the carboy in my kegerator before kegging. If I just leave the beer in the conical until kegging then there is no way to cold crash as my conical wont fit into my kegerator.
Few questions:
1. Can you cold crash in the keg before carbonating? If so, I could drain the conical to the keg then throw the corny in the kegerator.
2. Should I just not worry about the cold crash at all? I did use irish moss during the boil.
3. Aside from perhaps gaining some clarity out of moving to secondary, is there any other benefit of racking to a secondary other than freeing up the conical for my next batch?
4. Lastly, with dryhopping, I have to add 3oz of citra today for dryhopping. i have pellets and currently do not have a hop bag. Would I just remove the lid from the conical and sprinkle the pellets evenly across the top of the beer then put the lid back?
This was my first all grain batch ever, and I missed on my efficiency, so I am not expecting perfection at this point. That being said, I am more inclined to just drop the pellets directly and "let it happen". Hopefully with the conical, they will mostly drop anyway.
Thoughts?