Dry hopping with pellets and best method to get clarity

[beauvafr]

So what's best.. Dry hopping with pellets directly in the carboy and adding a paint strainer on the siphon before bottling, or just dry hopping with the pellets in a strainer ?

 

[day_trippr]

C: Dry hopping with pellets directly in the carboy, then crash cool the mush to the bottom before racking...

Cheers!

 

[TopherM]

Adding a paint strainer to the siphon before bottling will slightly oxidize your beer.

Plan on extra bulk conditioning time in the carboy long enough to allow the hop particles to settle out, then carefully rack above the trub layer when you transfer. Get an autosiphon if you don't have one, it's pretty easy to leave the trub layer alone with an autosiphon.

 

[AquaDementium]

I crash cool the last 48 hours of dry hopping to settle the pellets (no bags). Then rack to keg. I dose with biofine in the keg to take care of any residual haze. I've never had problems with hop matter getting stuck in the posts.

 

[eastoak]

austin homebrew supply has fine hop bags that are the best for dry hopping.