Northeastern IPA question?

[Allekornbrauer]

Hello I am going to brew a northeastern IPA my question is how to deal with the massive dry hopping? The recipe that I am following say to add the hop’s bag at day 3 into fermentation an keep them in contact for 4days an them remove the bagged hop’s on day 4. So my question should I weight the hops bag down or should I just put the dry hops in the hop bag an just toss them in without any thing weighting them down?

 

[Jtvann]

You could do that.

I just made my first neipa. Used a total of 6 oz hops in dry hopping. Honestly I threw all mine in as loose pellets. Left them in the entire time and carefully racked off the top after a 2 day cold crash.

I’m using a ss Brew Bucket. Not sure if that matters. I’d suggest just throwing them in.

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

Is there just the one dry hop addition? What and how much yeast are you using?

By day three with 1318 and a two liter starter I'm at fg. I raise the temp for a diacetyl rest cold crash a couple days later. There's no need to pull the hops with that plan. Honestly, I used to primary for two weeks and never pulled the hops.

 

[Allekornbrauer]

Sorry there one other dry hop addition it’s 3oz this time in the secondary. But I don’t do secondary.

 

[muledogus]

Id throw them in loose. My last batch, I dry hopped loose with 8oz and used an auto siphon to transfer after a cold crash and picked up very little trub.

 

[bassist286]

Use loose hops - Skip the Bag. You'll have more loss but better utilization. Or you could get two bags and do both additions with them. No WRONG way to do it. Use some sanitized SS pie weights or glass marbles to weigh down the Hop Bags if you are going to use them.

 

[badclamz]

Recently made a NEIPA and decided to use the glass carboy / big mouth bubbler from NorthernBrewer so I could more easily dry-hop during active fermentation and have the best idea when to add them. I used pellet hops and it was a total of 8oz different hops at different intervals. I was able to see in the glass carboy that the hops were in fact dissolving across the krausen and sinking during the ferment. I used a funnel and the small bunghole in the big moth to add the pellets and it was a winner. Beer was super hazy, hoppy and it was easy enough to remove the vast majority of hop matter using a 300 micron hop screen during siphoning to keg. To date it was my best brew

 

[Cevan65]

I've switched to just throwing in my hops loose for single and double DH beers. 3 day cold crash drops everything nicely. Never using a bag again.