Dry Hopping NE IPA when bottling not keging

[BeginnerBebeBrewer]

Hi Everyone,

I'm currently brewing a NE IPA and the recipe schedules for a dry hop addition directly to the keg. Unfortunately, I'm still in the bottling stage and therefore I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to circumvent this?

My thoughts were to transfer from my primary to a secondary - dry hop and leave a couple of days and then bottle. I usually only ever leave my beers in the primary so the alternative could be just to dry hop directly into the primary leave for a couple of days and then bottle as usual. I really want to try and maximise the juicy/hoppy profile of this.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

 

[Yooper]

Hi Everyone,

I'm currently brewing a NE IPA and the recipe schedules for a dry hop addition directly to the keg. Unfortunately, I'm still in the bottling stage and therefore I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to circumvent this?

My thoughts were to transfer from my primary to a secondary - dry hop and leave a couple of days and then bottle. I usually only ever leave my beers in the primary so the alternative could be just to dry hop directly into the primary leave for a couple of days and then bottle as usual. I really want to try and maximise the juicy/hoppy profile of this.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Either way is fine. The key to holding the great hops aroma and flavor is to minimize oxidation, so careful racking would be important if using a secondary.

 

[sky4meplease]

A new method for dry hopping this style is to add the hops during fermentation to scrub oxygen and the yeast help suspend the hops maximizing aroma oils. I have read 2-3 degrees Plato prior to terminal gravity.
Aside from that if it were me I would skip the secondary, dry hop in primary for 5 days, cold crash for two days and bottle adding a measured dose of bottling yeast to speed carbonation. I have done this and had carbonation in three days.
Then drink that stuff as fast as you can. No joke probably within two weeks.
You will get a lot of recommendations on this topic I'm surprised more people aren't jumping on it already.
Don't take my word for gospel but this has worked for me when bottling beers that fade fast. It makes such a big difference I started kegging beers of this nature and I push them through the pipeline.