Loose dry hops in keg: Did I mess up ???!!!

[seanppp]

I am new to kegging and threw in 4 oz of loose pellet hops in my keg to dry hop. There is about 4 more days before I bottle with my Blichmann Beergun, and I am starting to wonder if I made a mistake? Will the line plug up with hops? Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[prandlesc]

If you have another keg, you could rack the beer into it before you bottle and that should eliminate most of the hops sediment. I have an extra "out" dip tube that I cut off about 1.5" just for this type of problem, and that works pretty well, too. In either case, you may want to shoot the first few ounces into a clear glass to see how turbid the beer looks, and then decide what to do.

Best of luck!

 

[jonmohno]

I did the same thing for some dum reason but with leaf hops. I wasnt bottleing from it though. I didnt transfer either but I did fish them out with a new sanitized fish net/strainer thing. It worked pretty good but still would get clogged up every now and then, and yes I tried tying a hopbag around the inlet tube and it wouldnt suck anything being kind of conjesting the hole from the bag bunching up and stuff , it was a fine threaded tea bag so maybe a muslim type less tightly nit bag would work better or some nylon material.

I had to undo my outlet tube and clear it a few times but after I got most of the leaf hops out it did pretty well. I think I actually ended up putting those hops in a nylon bag and back in the keg, that was a great beer.

 

[GarageDweller]

i dry hopped a keg of rye saison with 1oz of pellets directly in the keg last summer. took forever to pour without hop particles. throw them in a bag next time, or check out the stainless brewing dry hoppers, for in keg dry hopping.

 

[Mb2658]

Prepare to have your dip tube and poppet plug up and be a royal pain to deal with. That was what happened to me and it didn't end well. I dry hopped with leaf hops in primary and didn't strain out all of the hop residue when I kegged it. I ended up screwing around with the poppet and dip tube so much that when I closed the door to the fridge, the picnic tap was pressed and ran the entire keg of beer out into the produce drawers. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/well-i-dumped-my-first-batch-beer-386862/

 

[GarageDweller]

if the dip tube clogs, hook up the co2 line to the out/liquid post and blast out the gunk with co2.
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