How long to dry hop in the secondary?

[ercousin]

How do you guys normally siphon out after dry hopping? People have been saying that muslin bags clog up easily and sometimes caused oxygen to be sucked in from outside the siphon.

I was thinking of using a 5 gallon nylon bag you would use for BIAB, apparently that works better...

 

[stoneyts]

I used a bag to hold my dry hop addition so I don't know what works best but I was thinking that the transfer to bottling bucket would work putting a bag at the end of the hose in the bucket. You would need to sterilize the bag but that would give an element of filtration that might not clog as easily. Of course this isn't speaking from experience but seems like it would work. I'll know more tomorrow when I bottle my beer just as a means of keeping as much crap out of the bottled beer as possible.

 

[Chris7687]

How do you guys normally siphon out after dry hopping? People have been saying that muslin bags clog up easily and sometimes caused oxygen to be sucked in from outside the siphon.

I was thinking of using a 5 gallon nylon bag you would use for BIAB, apparently that works better...

For siphoning after dry hopping, just siphon. I've never used any bags or screens to filter with. If you cold crash, everything settles down on its own as it cools. Even if you don't cold crash you still can avoid everything. If whole leaf I will bag, but pellets I just toss right in. I just haven't stepped too far into beer critiquing that I am that worried about oxygenation that much, but using bag obviously will and is avoided. Just pay attention to what you are doing and you'll be fine bare-backing it.

 

[invmgmt]

In these forums I have read others claiming that the transferring to a secondary is not needed. So, my question is, if the recipe calls for adding hops to a secondary, can I just add to the primary and let is go another 3-7 days??

 

[WroxBrew]

In these forums I have read others claiming that the transferring to a secondary is not needed. So, my question is, if the recipe calls for adding hops to a secondary, can I just add to the primary and let is go another 3-7 days??

I add my dry hops 2 weeks into the primary fermentation and let it go another week. Works for me.

 

[beerguy2009]

So from what I am reading, dry hopping for 5 day would get most if not all the aroma and flovor I could get from the hops? I am fermenting an American Pale ale and going to dry hop with 2oz of amarillo hops.

 

[Chris7687]

Dry hopping at room or fermentation temps (60's-70). The colder it is, the harder for the dry hopping to take place. If you dry hop in a keg at 40*, it will end up taking you two weeks to get the same results as keg at room temp for a week. This is all from my experience.

 

[WroxBrew]

So from what I am reading, dry hopping for 5 day would get most if not all the aroma and flovor I could get from the hops? I am fermenting an American Pale ale and going to dry hop with 2oz of amarillo hops.

This should come out great. I'm about to do this with 1oz Amarillo/1 oz Simcoe in my IPA.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

My first time dry hopping with fresh (but dried properly on a screen for a couple days then stored a couple weeks) hops from my fence. 1 oz. I transferred from Primary to Secondary today, then will bottle next week I guess. I guess I could have let it sit in the secondary before dry hopping, but they are in now. I don't want to leave them too long. I suppose also, I could rack the beer out into another secondary and let it sit a bit more, as I usually go at least a couple weeks in a secondary. The beer was three weeks in the primary, with no dry hopping there. I used copious fresh (but dried) hops in the boil, after 1/2 hour, and the sample from the hydrometer tube tasted dang good. Like a nice pale ale. Some dry hopping should make it even better. Any thoughts?

 

[Dfinnegan]

I just added dry hops today to my current batch if IPA. My current situation won't allow me to bottle until 11 days from now. That should be good, right? What do you guys think?

 

[itsratso]

oregon state did a study that showed that hop flavor/aroma can be measured in hours, not days. I dry hop for three days at room temp and try to swirl the beer a few times a day to re-suspend the hops. you can do the bud light-dry hop experiment described on bertus and see what works for you. dry hop a beer for 3 days, 5 days, different dry hop temps, hop amounts, whatever - go nuts, experiment!

http://www.bertusbrewery.com/2013/03/dry-hopped-bud-light.html

edit: btw I could never get this to work by recapping, too much pressure! I just pour the beer into a mason jar, add hops and screw on the lid.