pellet dry hopping

[mprice]

I dry hopped for the first time today with pellets and theres a thick hop layer on top now. So can I expect that this will settle down on the bottom or will it just stay on top. Am I going to have any trouble racking it out of the carboy without getting a bunch of hops in my racking cane. Sorry about the noob question, but just trying to think ahead.

 

[Zen_Brew]

Most of the hop pellets will become liquid saturated and sink but you may still have a bit of floating matter. An easy way to avoid pellet hop trub when racking is to put your racking cane inside a sanitized fine mesh grain bag or paint strainer bag before you put it in the carboy. The fine mesh acts as a filter to help keep the fine hop particles from coming through.

 

[mrtrav]

I put the mesh bag on the opposite end of the spectrum when I siphon. However I also keep my hops in a mesh bag when I dry hop as well, so I don't have much trub on the bottom of the carboy at the end of fermentation.

 

[waldoar15]

I use a mesh bag now. I found that the un-bagged pellet smung sort of split itself between the top and bottom of the carboy and never really settled. 1/2 floated, 1/2 settled.