Hops Bags

[wingnutjr]

To use or not to use, that is the question. I just finished bottling my first brew over the weekend and I noticed significant loss due to trub on the bottom of my carboy. Just wondering anyone who's had experience using both methods pitching hops with a bag or just directly into your wort if it yielded less trub or most trub came from yeast? Thanks in advance!!

 

[RM-MN]

If you look carefully at the bottom of your carboy you might see two different colors. Hops are green and will come out a greenish grey in the fermenter. Yeast will be a creamy or yellowish white. I suspect that you will have trouble seeing the hops component of the trub because it should be pretty small unless you used a ton of hops.