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garlicfingers

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Do you worry about impurities mixed with your hops when you vacuum seal them?

I dried mine, brought them inside in a bag. As I was stuffing the vacuum bags I tried to loosely grab the hops to let anything else fall back into the bag. When I was done the bag I used to carry the hops in had some bird poop, small flies, small snails and an inch worm.
 
Do you worry about impurities mixed with your hops when you vacuum seal them?

I dried mine, brought them inside in a bag. As I was stuffing the vacuum bags I tried to loosely grab the hops to let anything else fall back into the bag. When I was done the bag I used to carry the hops in had some bird poop, small flies, small snails and an inch worm.

I wouldn't worry too much about those in a boil addition myself, but I would be very concerned using those hops for dry-hopping.....what do other people use to sanitize their home grown hops?
 
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