Silver_Is_Money
Larry Sayre, Developer of 'Mash Made Easy'
Can it yield successful results, or must dry hopping be done with leaf hops?
Dry hopping with pellet hops?
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Pellets work just fine...
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Silver_Is_Money
Larry Sayre, Developer of 'Mash Made Easy'
Excellent! Thanks!
Murphys_Law
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Hops come in forms different than pellets? 
I have never used any hops other than pellet.
GHBWNY
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Pellets for sure. And you can stick them in a small mesh bag or hop sack, a tied-off piece of nylon pantyhose (sanitized and with your SWMBO's blessing, of course) or just go commando.
PlexVector
Mellow Goose Brewing
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Silver_Is_Money
Larry Sayre, Developer of 'Mash Made Easy'
By going "commando" do you mean just tossing the pellets into the batch straight up, without a hop sack?
GHBWNY
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Yes. As PlexVector said, it all drops out of suspension during cold-crash. When it comes to packaging, carefully racking just above the trub will prevent any of it ending up in your beer.
Go commando, let the hops be free to dance and play.
Try putting some weights in with the pellet hops to keep them submerged in the beer. Use a length of unflavored dental floss tied to the hop sack at one end and crimped between the lid on the other, so you can easily pull the hop sack out. This will work with both corny kegs and fermentors.
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Silver_Is_Money
Larry Sayre, Developer of 'Mash Made Easy'
I'm using a 6.5 gallon glass carboy fermenter. Only about 1.125" to 1.25" diameter at the neck.
Murphys_Law
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Toss them in and let them swim! You'll have a hard time pulling a water logged hop sack out of a narrow opening.
Pellets are better for dry hopping Imo for 2 reasons
1) pellets have better flavor/aroma stability during storage
2) pellets introduce a lot less oxygen than cones and so result in greater aroma stability in the final beer.
I hop in the leg and serve off the hops. No grassy flavours, just hop flavours. You need to use a keg hopper or equivalent
1) pellets have better flavor/aroma stability during storage
2) pellets introduce a lot less oxygen than cones and so result in greater aroma stability in the final beer.
I hop in the leg and serve off the hops. No grassy flavours, just hop flavours. You need to use a keg hopper or equivalent
doogie
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I just got a keg hopping canister...any special procedure? Just add them to the keg and fill the keg as normal?
apl_seed
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How about the amount of hops? Do you guys usually use a secondary or do you just go from primary to keg with the dry hop in the keg?
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Silver_Is_Money
Larry Sayre, Developer of 'Mash Made Easy'
I was going to ask something similar. Do you dry hop in the primary, or wait until it is in the secondary?
GHBWNY
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Primary as long as active fermentation is done. Otherwise, some aroma will be lost through airlock.
Secondary... nah.
apl_seed
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I like the idea of not messin around with the seconary. Whats a good baseline for a nice fresh hop flavor for using, lets say, cascade or citra?
I don't secondary, I do use a SS conical, and I've really enjoyed the NEIPA approach of dry hopping During active fermentation (~3days in).
