The small neck on those make the choice of dry hopping simple....Free Balling is the way to go! if you want a clearer beer you need to be able to cold crash it. To get clear beer in the package you can sanitize a hop sac and rubber band it to the end of the siphon that goes in the carboy as a kind of filter.
Ideally it should be done after fermentation has lost vigour or else all aroma will be lost. Look for slow down of bubbling, like real slow. Add some weight to hop bag like glass marbles or ceramic pieces or something of stainless steel. The idea is to sink the bag. When hops swell, they float up. You'd want it to stay at the bottom for maximum benefits. Dry hopping so should be done for 3 days minimum and 10 days is long enough. Personally, I agitate the fermenter once a day so that every thing mixes well.
Depends on a couple things. Does your carboy have a spigot or do you use a siphon and do you cold crash? If you cold crash or siphon you can toss em in commando, if you dont cold crash and use a spigot to keg I suggest using a muslin bag .
NEIPA gets it look due to grain bill. I use paint strainer bags or muslin bags in my NEIPA . I dont like hop particles in any beer.
Difficult to retrieve from a narrow mouth carboy? I am tossing in 2 oz. of pellets
Just read your post about using a siphon. Lots of people use the filter mod at the end of it.
They should all start sinking after about 3 days anyway and will have no issue extracting. Do you get more extraction with agitation, absolutely but if you can’t minimize o2 pick up than it will be counter productiveI think I will avoid swirling it. I am not sure I would get much more hop oil to the bottom of the beer that way. Next go around I will use a different secondary so I can sink my DH
Do not give it a swirl, I repeate, do not give it a swirl. It will create a vacuum and pull o2 into your carboy and start oxidation. Let it be if you can’t connect it to co2.
You can do much better: Don't use a secondary!Next go around I will use a different secondary so I can sink my DH
The air pocket will move due to the liquid inside moving and this will causing negative pressure. the only way to neutralize it is for it to draw air in. Sure co2 will leave your trub but there’s not nearly enough to stop the air coming. The air coming in is now mixed all around in the headspace. Physics man physicsHow do you think this? I have swirled beers a few times either to mix the hops or raise the yeast. It drives some CO2 out of solution and start bubbling again.
The air pocket will move due to the liquid inside moving and this will causing negative pressure. the only way to neutralize it is for it to draw air in. Sure co2 will leave your trub but there’s not nearly enough to stop the air coming. The air coming in is now mixed all around in the headspace. Physics man physics
A long blow off tube in a bucket of star would be a method of minimizing o2 pick up. Next time you dryhop, put the stopper back in before you swirl and watch the tube by the bucket. It will draw the solution upI guess we will have to agree to disagree. I typically have a long blow off tube running to a bottle of Starsan anyway, so I am not going to get any air sucked back into my fermenters from a swirl. I typically pull out the stopper from the top of my fermenter and dump in dry hops. If I added more than an oz or two I swirl to distribute them a little.
It sucks air if you try to lift it, because you increase the space inside the bucket as the beer push the bottom down when it's lifted...Actually I think hes using glass . I use plastic carboys and if you move it even a tad it sucks whatever is in the airlock in .
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