Have any dry hoping tips?

[Jcmccoy]

My american wheat beer is done fermenting and I want to dry hop it with 1 oz of some Amarillo hops.

Last time I dry hoped I added the hops naked to the secondary and racked beer on top.... this made a mess on bottling day. Hop gunk got all in my bottling bucket and in some bottles.

I was thinking of using a hop sac. My buddy used a marble to sink his hop sac to the bottom.

Any tips? should I just use a hop sac and let the hops sit on top? Or just go naked to get the most out of them.

 

[kuphish]

I've never used the hop sack, but it sounds like it would work fine.

I typically just toss the pellets into the fermenter. When it's time to bottle, I take a fine mesh bag like the one here and attach it to the bottom of my autosiphon with a sanitized rubber band. I find it works best if I leave a fair amount of the bag free to hang beneath the siphon.