Your dryhop uses 2-4 more oz than I use in my entire beer. Only my triples will I use a lb of hops in total. You’re dryhoping with what’s equivalent to 6.5 lbs/bbl of t90 pellets that are Homebrew quality. In my eyes that is a lot, I know a lot of breweries will claim this, but many of them have access to far better hops than us. They also use this number as marketing it’s not actually 7 lb/bbl of t90 pellets going in. OH for example counts their advanced hop product amounts in this figure. For example they will claim they dryhopped with “equivalent” of 7 lb/bbl and which in reality could be 3lb/bbl of cryo and 1lb/bbl. I’ve included a picture from their website so you know what I mean and this time they say 15lb/bbl
I know their are many ppl in the thread may do this. I’m not saying it’s wrong, but I would certainly implore you to try to reduce you hopping totals to about 2.5-3.0 oz/gallon in total and 1.2 - 2 oz/gallon. I’d also suggest cutting your dryhop to 1 or 2 addition (I still use 2). If you are following the best practices and process outlined in this thread for dryhoping and anti-o2, I think you will see much brighter and truer varietal specific character in your beers with a reduced hop amount
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Hey, I'll give it a try, I've nothing to loose at this stage and so much more to gain and save hop wise. On this beer I outlined I took a sample when I transferred to the dry hop keg and I was so impressed with the hop flavor already and the was after only 4.2oz.
I weigh out all my hops on brew day so I had the 3 separate dry hops in vacuum bags. I said to myself that I'm going to try the beer after the second dry hop (6.3oz) as I was really happy with the sample but for whatever reason I forgot and went and added the third charge. If I had of done this I would have seen what it was like with 10.5oz so at the upper limit of your recommended range. Muddy would be a great description of the flavors as I can't pick out any of the individual hop flavors and with that amount of Citra it should be bursting with flavor at this stage. Worst case scenario, if I'm not happy with flavors with the lower amounts I could always add some more to the serving keg. These beers cost me a lot of money so any savings would be fantastic.
I'll give you another example of my rates if you don't mind me picking your brain, this is a combo you're familiar with as it's your Cashmere, Amarillo, Citra and Sabro so 5G batch and 1.080 Other Half Oat Cream DIPA, dry hopped with
Cashmere - 7.2oz
Amarillo - 4.4oz
Citra Lupomx and T90 - 2.1oz
Sabro Lupomax - 2.1oz
Best way to describe the flavor would be a mess at the start. was getting very little hop flavor. Was pretty unpleasant to drink and I really thought about dumping it. Left it for a while and went back to it, The Sabro really took over to the point it was pure Pina colada. It's drinkable now but if I got it in a bar I wouldn't order another.
So would these level line up with your thinking about more hops is not always a good thing?