Pliney Dry Hop Schedule Help

[W0rter]

Dry Hop/Bottling Ingredients
3.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 13 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 14 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 15 0.0 IBUs

I'm using a 7.5 Gal Conical Fermenter.
I added the 3oz of Columbus right after pumping my wort into my Co2 filled Conical. I tied the hop mesh bag to the loop on the inside of the dry hop door in the lid of the conical.
The question is after 7 days do I remove the Columbus hop bag and drop in a new hop bag containing the Centennial Hops? Then after another 7 hays remove the Centennial Hop bag and drop in another bag containing the Simcoe Hops?.
Or do I just leave all three bags so the Columbus would see 21 days in the Conical and the Centennial would see 14 days and Simcoe would see 7 days. Then put beer in a keg after the three dry hop additions and start the aging process?

 

[njpatg]

Dry Hop/Bottling Ingredients
3.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 13 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 14 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 15 0.0 IBUs

I'm using a 7.5 Gal Conical Fermenter.
I added the 3oz of Columbus right after pumping my wort into my Co2 filled Conical. I tied the hop mesh bag to the loop on the inside of the dry hop door in the lid of the conical.
The question is after 7 days do I remove the Columbus hop bag and drop in a new hop bag containing the Centennial Hops? Then after another 7 hays remove the Centennial Hop bag and drop in another bag containing the Simcoe Hops?.
Or do I just leave all three bags so the Columbus would see 21 days in the Conical and the Centennial would see 14 days and Simcoe would see 7 days. Then put beer in a keg after the three dry hop additions and start the aging process?

If the recipe specifies a seven day dry hop period then all the hops would be added at the same time for a period of seven days , not one after another . hope this helps

 

[afro_lou]

First, it looks like you may have added the dry-hops at the very beginning of fermentation? Did you transfer into your conical from your boil kettle and pitch and dry-hop, or from another fermenter?
I typically wait until fermentation is almost done (or completely done) before dry-hopping.
In terms of 7 days vs 21, I'd agree with the above, with 5oz total there's not a big need to split the dry-hop additions.

 

[W0rter]

I finished the brew Nov 1st then on the 2nd I decided to put the dry hops in. My brew was bubbling through the blow off tube inside of 2 hours of pitching my 2 packs of 1096 I had a fresh 2L started. My OG was 1.084. On the 2nd I already had a layer of Krausen that prevented my from immersing the dry hop bag. I bobbed the bag up and down several times to help it through the krausen. So I see it would have been better if I had waited for fermentation to finish and have the krausen drop then dry hop with all 5 Oz of hops for seven days. Thanks, now I know for the future. As a heady topper is on deck to brew.