HoptoManiac
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New brewer here. First batch underway, but I have a question about dry hop pellet residue that it seems will ruin the bottling process.
I'm brewing the Plinian Legacy grain recipe. It's in the 2nd week of the secondary, after both dry hop additions, but I anticipate an issue when I rack for bottling. I added my 1st hop addition and went away on vacation for a week. I came back to a very clean brew with some of the hop residue (from pellets) floating on top. I was very excited. I then added the 2nd dry hops and gave a swirl to get the new pellets through the floaters. That seemed OK at the time. I came back the next day to more hops floating on top. So I gave it a swirl again and most quickly sank again, with just a bit left on top. I have done this for 5 days now and each day I come back I have a new 1/2 inch layer on top and, with the swirling, the beer has nowhere near the clarity it did before the 2nd addition (after an undisturbed 7 days).
So, I'm not sure what to do here. The recipe states the 2nd hops addition should be there for 5 days. It's been 5 days and I now have a cloudy beer with 1/2 inch of hops floating on top again. I imagine if I didn't touch it for a few days it would clear up, even though that would put me outside of the recipe requirements, but my bigger concern is that I know as soon as I stick my auto-siphon in that all of those floaties are going to start mucking up the beer again before I can get it out.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
I'm brewing the Plinian Legacy grain recipe. It's in the 2nd week of the secondary, after both dry hop additions, but I anticipate an issue when I rack for bottling. I added my 1st hop addition and went away on vacation for a week. I came back to a very clean brew with some of the hop residue (from pellets) floating on top. I was very excited. I then added the 2nd dry hops and gave a swirl to get the new pellets through the floaters. That seemed OK at the time. I came back the next day to more hops floating on top. So I gave it a swirl again and most quickly sank again, with just a bit left on top. I have done this for 5 days now and each day I come back I have a new 1/2 inch layer on top and, with the swirling, the beer has nowhere near the clarity it did before the 2nd addition (after an undisturbed 7 days).
So, I'm not sure what to do here. The recipe states the 2nd hops addition should be there for 5 days. It's been 5 days and I now have a cloudy beer with 1/2 inch of hops floating on top again. I imagine if I didn't touch it for a few days it would clear up, even though that would put me outside of the recipe requirements, but my bigger concern is that I know as soon as I stick my auto-siphon in that all of those floaties are going to start mucking up the beer again before I can get it out.
Any advice greatly appreciated.