PLEASE HELP!!!How to get my hop bags out before disturbing the yeast.

[Travisbrew]

I'm a first time brewer and decided to dry hop my first batch but have no idea how to get out my hop bags before they hit the bottom and disturb yeast. Can someone please give me a trick on how to fix this mess, I'm going out of town thursday so tomorrow will be the last time I get a chance to bottle for quite some time. Thanx.

 

[alestateyall]

Don't take that hop bag out. It won't hurt anything. Just rack your beer to the bottling bucket. Taking the dry hop bag out before moving the beer to the bottling bucket would be a giant pain.

PS. I think this post should be in the beginners forum.

 

[Yooper]

I'm a first time brewer and decided to dry hop my first batch but have no idea how to get out my hop bags before they hit the bottom and disturb yeast. Can someone please give me a trick on how to fix this mess, I'm going out of town thursday so tomorrow will be the last time I get a chance to bottle for quite some time. Thanx.

Just rack the beer from above the yeast cake, while avoiding the hops bag. It doesn't matter if the bag sinks or floats.

 

[ScottSingleton]

How are you planning on getting the beer out of the container? Are you using a racking cane or a bottling spigot?

with a racking cane you should just be able to put the end of the cane down somewhere where the bag isn't, and siphon it out from there.

If you don't have a cane and are using a spigot it may not totally block it up. I've never used bottling buckets myself so I don't know how big the port is on them.

I use hop bags all the time and just use a racking cane set down somwhere next to the hop bag.

 

[Travisbrew]

I'm using a racking cane, and I was told that when you take off your lid the bags are going to sink because I am using pellets and the bag will then stir up yeast, will this not happen?

 

[DannyD]

even if it desturbs the yeast, it does not matter. If your not filltering or using lots of finnings, your going to end up with some yeast in the last few bottles

 

[Travisbrew]

Would taking the air lock out and than replacing it let it drop and then I could come back in 12 hours? Would that work also?

 

[JLem]

I'm using a racking cane, and I was told that when you take off your lid the bags are going to sink because I am using pellets and the bag will then stir up yeast, will this not happen?

Why would a floating bag sink once you opened the lid?

 

[petey_c]

JLem, I was wondering the same thing myself.

 

[Grinder12000]

Next time don't use the bag. I just put the pellets in the carboy. No worries.

 

[user 98891]

Even if you do stir up the trub/yeast, just let it sit for a few minutes and it should settle back down.

 

[Revvy]

I don't use them, but when I did, I just left them til it was time to rack my beer. They won't cause any harm.

 

[Travisbrew]

Thanks for all the info people! The good news is when I opened it they did not sink, I just took them out with a sanitized pair of tongs.

 

[Yooper]

Thanks for all the info people! The good news is when I opened it they did not sink, I just took them out with a sanitized pair of tongs.

Darn. Well, next time leave them so that you can just rack the beer around them. You don't want the drips or splashes or anything from taking them out. Next time just leave them in, as everybody suggested.

 

[huge1s]

I don't care if I disturb the yeast a bit.... I have to move the fermenter to the kitchen for racking into the bottling bucket, which disturbs the yeast a bit just from moving it. I just plan ahead and move it to the kitchen an hour ahead of time so it has time to settle the yeast before racking.