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radwizard

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Has anyone experimented with long dry hops in beers with brett? I've been listening to some interviews and posting about this, and was curious to try some new things.
Does Brett clean up the grassy flavors associated with an extended dry hop?
I've been reading about dry hoping throughout the aging process and wasn't sure if these hops are just staying in the fermenter for months or being pulled out.
 
I'm thinking grassy flavors tend to fall out in aged beers with or without Brett. I'be seen this in IPAs that were heavily late/dry hopped that started out pretty grassy but those flavors calmed down over time. Commercial wet hop beers also to me seem pretty grassy when first released which I think is part of the intended character...fresh mown lawn lol...but over time that receeds.
 
I haven't done extended aging on hops, but I have dry hopped Brett secondary pale ales and the dry hop flavor really gets interesting over time in the bottle (particularly for mosaic). It starts out super fresh and juicy (think clean NEIPA) but biotranaforms in the bottle into something really special after a few months, but starts to drop off a bit after 12 months in bottle.
 
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