Kegging after dry hop

[hilljack13]

I am currently dry hopping my last brew. Have one more charge to put in this weekend which will make it 6oz total. I usually use a bag or one of those small mesh cylinders, but after my last had hops stuck in it that were barely wet I went commando with this brew. Anyway, I'll be racking from a spike flex so I wonder if I should use some sorta strainer or filter to keep a lot of the hops from going in the keg. I also use Float IT. I just don't want anything to get clogged up from a bunch of floating hops. I don't even know if they float or sink.

 

[day_trippr]

If you can cold-crash the beer it will send the hop debris to the bottom so you can rack off above it. That's what I do, and I rubber-band a patch of nylon paint strainer bag with a large SS washer inside to the end of my SS racking tube just as insurance...

Cheers!

 

[hilljack13]

I'm at 50F now so I'll cold crash.

 

[worlddivides]

I put a pretty massive dry hopping charge in my last brew, but cold crashing (down to 39-42F for a few days in my case) did the trick in completely preventing any hops from getting into my keg.