Dry Hopping with Cascade

[sendkyleanemail]

I did an Mini Mash "APA" using this recipe:

2.25# 2 Row Base Malt
1.00# Crystal Malt 40L
Mashed at 155F
5# Extra Pale LME
Added @ 30 mina
1 OZ Magnum Pellets @ 60 mins
1 OZ Cascade Pellets @ 15 mins
1 OZ Hallertau Pellets @ 5 mins

And am considering a two week dry hop with two ounces of Cascade Leaves. Too much?

 

[badhabit]

It isn't too much to me. Tonight I will be dry hopping 2 oz of Cascade to an APA I am fermenting. I wait two days after moving to the secondary and add the dry hops. I then hold them in the secondary until I am ready to rack. I always use whole hops. I end up with a pretty hoppy tasting/smelling brew. I have never had complaints. The only thing that I would note is that if I use two oz I like to secondary in a 6 gal carboy. In the past I have had some brews where the addition of the dry hop in a 5 gal caused a substantial release of CO2 and I ended up having to put a blow off tube on the secondary. I went to the 6 gal and have never had the problem. I have had a lot of CO2 production but never so much that it was blowing out of the top of the carboy and causing me to switch back to the blow off.

 

[Hammy71]

2oz of Cascade too much? Nah.... 2oz is about the smallest amount I dry-hop anymore. Even if the recipe calls for less.....

 

[Brandonovich]

Is there really any such thing as too much hops anymore?

 

[GatorDad]

And am considering a two week dry hop with two ounces of Cascade Leaves. Too much?

If some is good, then more is better - and too much is not enough. Do it.

 

[sendkyleanemail]

Ok so Cascade or Citra? I have 2 ounces of each I am itching to use hehehe.

 

[Priemus]

I always dry hop now with 2oz, but for only 1 week. Never tried two weeks but:
A: I ferment in a plastic bucket, dont keep it in there any longer than I have too.
B: Have heard you may get Vegetable flavours if you dry hop too long (the lower end indicates 2 weeks +).

 

[sendkyleanemail]

Maybe I'll use the Citra in this APA and the Cascade in an up coming IPA?

 

[beerspitnight]

We dry hopped a 8 gallon batch with 2.5oz of whole leaf cascade for 2 weeks and the beer was great! No vegetable flavors at all.

 

[scottland]

I recommend dry hopping with more hops for less time. 2oz sounds good. Look for 5-7 days of contact time. Helps keep away any grassy flavors

 

[sendkyleanemail]

I was thinking 7 days might be enough with 2 oz.

 

[Boleslaus]

I would also agree that the idea of dry hopping for 7-10 days would be good. I would shoot for 10 days, a happy medium. I don't think you'll lose any effect with that length, and you certainly won't run any risk of off flavors unless you exceed 2 weeks.

 

[sendkyleanemail]

10 it is!!! MMMM HOPS!!!

 

[badhabit]

I always dry hop now with 2oz, but for only 1 week. Never tried two weeks but:
A: I ferment in a plastic bucket, dont keep it in there any longer than I have too.
B: Have heard you may get Vegetable flavours if you dry hop too long (the lower end indicates 2 weeks +).

I have never had any vegie flavor from a two week dry hop. I also hear that Sam Adams dry hops their Boston Lager for three weeks. I find that pretty amazing just because, if I understand the commercial lager process, that seems like they would be dry hopping through out the entire lager.

 

[Priemus]

Im not saying you WILL get those flavours after two weeks, just from what Ive read about dry hopping everyone (much like above) has always recommended less than 2 weeks as that could happen.

Im guessing thats to err on the safe side, 2 weeks might actually be 2 months etc. Like the expiry date on milk, still good after a week if you treat it well

 

[doctorRobert]

I've always heard you are less likely to get that grassy flavor if youre using whole leaf hops instead of pellets.