First Dry Hop

[bhamilton31206]

This is the first dry hop that I have attempted

I have 1 oz Amarillo pellets, 1 oz Ahtanum pellets, and 2 oz Simcoe whole leaf hops. I put all hops in the 5 gallon carboy and racked on top of it. The whole leaf hops are floating on top of the beer.

My question is should I do anything to submerge the hops or will they sink by themselves? I just feel like so much is surface area of the hops is not in contact with the beer not sure what to do?

 

[Yooper]

They should soon be wet with the beer, unless they are just in a big pile in the fermenter. It takes a while, but soon the bottom hops absorb the beer, then the next ones, etc. Unless you have some totally dry on top, I wouldn't do anything.

 

[android]

i have nothing to add other than i just dry hopped a beer with 4oz of hops myself and it is damn good. enjoy!

 

[ShermanTank]

I just dry-hopped an IIPA with 2 oz fresh Citra hops. The pellet ops will sink and the whole hops will stay on top. I like to bottle 7-10 days after dry hopping in order to capture the hop flavor/aroma. Even though the whole hops wont sink, the hop oils and aroma will permeate throughout the beer.