Midwest supplies dry hops for 14days up to 6 weeks??

[Brewskii]

Have much respect for Midwest Supplies - decent kits and competitive prices...heck, their Groupon starter kit was how I decided to get started.
So how did they manage to give such bad advice in the last catalog they sent. If you have it, look for home brew tip #2 around the hops section.

Bizarre.

 

[GenIke]

What is the "tip"?

 

[aiptasia]

Probably recommending dry hopping for 14 days to 6 weeks. They probably meant "fermenting" and not dry hopping.

 

[Brewskii]

What is the "tip"?

Yes; they recommend dry hopping for 14 days to up to 6 weeks.

Every thing I've ever read suggests less than 10 and usually 5-7.

*Edit....DAYs that is.

 

[njporter]

i've dryhopped up to 6 weeks(a month and a half) without issues or grassy flavors

 

[lakedawgs]

I brewed a Zombie Dust clone and got busy and it dry hopped for 7wks, on the original yeast cake! Came out perfect. Had a few people try it head to head against the real thing and no one could tell the difference, a couple them were even BJCP judges.

I'm not saying that this should be normal practice. But it is not crazy advice. If I would have know this would dry hop for so long I would have used a secondary. I have another batch of the same brew going. 5 gallons recently went in to a keg after 2 1/2 wks dry hopping, the other 5 gallons will continue to dry hop to the first keg is empty.