hoppy AF. I've been brewing all grain since 1973, on and off, and there, lies the dilemma.

[HoppyAF]

I never was forced into pellet hops nightmare cloudy stuff. You guys in the US are spoiled for choice. How TF do you stop pellet hops being a problem. Cloudiness, getting into bottles etc.

 

[Sammy86]

First, welcome to the community!

Cold crashing, gelatin and time seem to do the trick for me!

 

[TheMadKing]

Are you referring to a dry hopped beer?

There's several different methods for keeping pellet hop sediment out of packaging

The easiest is to put them in a bag or a metal hop filter (like a tea steeper thing) so they aren't loose in your bottling bucket.

You can cold crash and take care not to let the suction of your siphon dip too low and disturb the sediment.

You can pull from the top of your bottling bucket with a floating dip tube

 

[Beernik]

In the boil, I use a hop spider.

Dry hopping isn’t something I do a lot of, but you can always throw the hops in a muslin or cheese cloth bag with some glass marbles for weight and tie it off.

The hop canisters are like my hop spider but with a screw lid that you can use to dry hop.

 

[HoppyAF]

Thanks guys for your replies. I'll start cheaply, with a hop bag, I am from Scotland. I might escalate to a hop basket. Thanks for the advice.

 

[madscientist451]

Thanks guys for your replies. I'll start cheaply, with a hop bag,

I used to use the small bags for hops, but stopped using them because I felt I wasn't getting as much hop impact. So now I just chuck them in and let the kettle settle for a while before I dump the wort in the fermenter. The hops settle out on their own with time.

 

[HoppyAF]

I used to use the small bags for hops, but stopped using them because I felt I wasn't getting as much hop impact. So now I just chuck them in and let the kettle settle for a while before I dump the wort in the fermenter. The hops settle out on their own with time.

Yes I do ok with hops, it's just the bloody pellets, they seem to go so fine and bypass all the filtering aids that I use.

 

[Beernik]

I think my spider was $25ish on Amazon. The canisters are a little cheaper at $17ish

 

[Bobby_M]

I don't contain my hops in the boil or in the dry hop and I don't have any problem with settling the pellets out before packaging. Perhaps this is an issue of patience.

 

[HoppyAF]

I don't contain my hops in the boil or in the dry hop and I don't have any problem with settling the pellets out before packaging. Perhaps this is an issue of patience.

Yes it's possible that given time they will settle out. I only ever used full hops up until recently, and never had a problem. Using pellets seems more problematic. My normal method tends to be primary ferment till main yeast activity subsides, 5 or so days, then secondary fermenter for a week or 10 days, then bottle. Real hops dry hopping in secondary fermenter no probs. Pellet hops, beer full of bits and not wanting to clear.

 

[Bobby_M]

Very few people are moving beer to a secondary anymore. I dry hop in the primary when activity is just about over. I agitate the fermenter once daily and usually on day 4 or 5, that action dislodges the CO2 bubbles off the hop material and lets it settle more quickly.

 

[hout17]

Very few people are moving beer to a secondary anymore. I dry hop in the primary when activity is just about over. I agitate the fermenter once daily and usually on day 4 or 5, that action dislodges the CO2 bubbles off the hop material and lets it settle more quickly.

I'll have to give this a try thanks for the tip.