dry hopping in Fermenting Keg...did I do it right?

[odie]

Hook up co2, pull prv and rotate 90 so it stays open. Push lid in, drop hops, close lid. Let it keep flowing thru prv for a moment. Close prv, increase pressure, purge a few times. Remove gas

sounds like a solid procedure to me.

 

[Ragman]

hmm, gonna have to try that method next time.

 

[Docod44]

Ugh - so I did my 2nd dry hop addition this morning and the o-ring around the center lid fell in the brew. I had another o -ring so I just used anothe but now I have the original o-ring sitting in my beer for the next couple days before I cold crash and transfer. Should I be concerned? The o-ring was sanitized before I started fermentation but I had also put keg lube on it.

I had this happen when fermenting a DIPA in a corny keg last week while adding my first dry hop charge. FYI I added a third of my dry hops in the first addition at high krausen and I already had fermcap in the wort. Not only did I lose my o-ring due to carelessness, but my hop addition caused my wort to fountain up and coat the walls of my ferm chamber despite the use of fermcap. I had a backup o-ring and I left the old one in the beer until it was finished and I transferred it to a clean serving keg. No harm done leaving it in there!

 

[Knightshade]

Hook up co2, pull prv and rotate 90 so it stays open. Push lid in, drop hops, close lid. Let it keep flowing thru prv for a moment. Close prv, increase pressure, purge a few times. Remove gas

Did this the other day, but didn't think about leaving the PRV open when I put it back on, good tip. What I was kind of wondering to myself though was...how high should the PSI during the dry hop add? I think I had it around 3'ish, just enough where I could barely hear it pushing gas in...?

 

[BeerFst]

Did this the other day, but didn't think about leaving the PRV open when I put it back on, good tip. What I was kind of wondering to myself though was...how high should the PSI during the dry hop add? I think I had it around 3'ish, just enough where I could barely hear it pushing gas in...?

Yeah that’s what I leave it as. I actually use this little mini regulator and it kinda sits at zero when it’s wide open like that cause pressure can’t build. But you’ll know you’re too high if you can’t press the lid in with the prv open

 

[Knightshade]

Yeah that’s what I leave it as. I actually use this little mini regulator and it kinda sits at zero when it’s wide open like that cause pressure can’t build. But you’ll know you’re too high if you can’t press the lid in with the prv open

That makes sense. I'm using a duo tight mini regulator that reads 0-60 and the marks are so dang small that they're kinda hard to read. I do the hearing test where I'll just push the gas poppet in a bit and turn up the gas just to the point where I can hear it flowing.