Hops in keg issue

[cylered16]

Hey everyone,

I just siphoned off my IPA from my secondary into my keg yesterday. I dry hopped the IPA with 4 ounces of pellet hops and had about 1-1.5" of dry-hopping trub at the bottom. While siphoning I noticed there were still little pieces of hop floating around.

I know next time that I'll just use my keg as a secondary and implement a stainless steel hop ball for dry-hopping.

I'm wondering if the hop floaters will all settle to the bottom in my keg and I can just pull it out from my tap? I'm hoping clogging won't be too much of an issue.

 

[david_42]

No happiness here, hops will clog the tube. It's just a matter of how much and how often.

 

[pernox]

Next time, run your beer through a paint strainer bag on its way into the keg. They sell at Home Depot for a couple bucks.

For now, you could use gelatin finings to settle all that nastiness to the bottom so it all comes out in one pour.. Get a box of Knox Gelatin from the store, boil a cup of water, let it cool to 170 or so, mix in one packet of gelatin, and dump it in the keg. Wait three days, dump the first pint, and you're good to go.

 

[jpc]

I used pellet hops for dry-hopping once; never again! Even with a mesh bag, the entire keg contained flaky hop ****e.

I now use leaf hops, and I'm much happier... er... (nah, I won't go there).

 

[Yooper]

Hopefully, the hops debris won't clog your diptube. In my experience, sometimes I can get by with a little debris, but not much. The pellet hops do disintegrate pretty well, so maybe you won't have problems.