chiefbrewer
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Okay, so tried my first dry hopping on this batch. I thought (incorrectly it would seem) that I could just toss some hops pellets in the fermentor, and they would just sink to the bottom over time. I checked my gravity and it was close to terminal...so I tossed them in. Been five days, so I just took a sample to see if the beer was ready to bottle. The hops seems to have broken up into millions of tiny bits just floating around in the beer. I was going to bottle tomorrow...what do I do?!?!? Would cold conditioning work to make the hops bits settle? I was think about rigging up my grain bag(sanitized of course) by sticking my racking cane down into the bag and tie-rapping it so it would act as a filter when i rack to the bottling bucket...would this work? Any thoughts??