Question on NEIPA

[VolunteerBrewer]

I just finished bottling my NEIPA and I poured myself a small taste. There is a real hot hop bitter flavor I think from small floating hop particles. I did not filter in anyway and on a 5.5 gallon batch dry hopped with 8 oz and whirlpooled with 8 oz.

Will these drop to the bottom once cold or will the flavor die down?

 

[Cavpilot2000]

I just finished bottling my NEIPA and I poured myself a small taste. There is a real hot hop bitter flavor I think from small floating hop particles. I did not filter in anyway and on a 5.5 gallon batch dry hopped with 8 oz and whirlpooled with 8 oz.

Will these drop to the bottom once cold or will the flavor die down?

It should settle to the bottom, but since you're using bottles, pour gently and carefully and leave the last ounce or so in the bottle.

It reminds me of black pepper. It's the reason I started using a floating dip tube (Clearbeer draft system) in my NEIPA kegs: let the crap settle to the bottom and putt the beer from the top.

 

[VolunteerBrewer]

So let it carb. Chill it, pour gentlely and I’m good to go?

 

[Cavpilot2000]

So let it carb. Chill it, pour gentlely and I’m good to go?

You should be.
There’s not much else you can do with it if you’ve already bottled it with that hops residue. But it will settle.

Also be advised though that most people experience substantial browning and loss of fresh Hop flavor in NEIPAs pretty quick after bottling due to oxygen exposure. Bottle conditioning might help because the yeast that are carbing it will also consume the oxygen.
But don’t be surprised if that happens.
Best advice: drink it soon.

 

[Wyobrew22]

My first couple of attempts at the style have had this issue, one came out as soft and juicy as I wanted but lacking a little aroma. The floaters are quite hot until you let them adequately settle out. An IPA style that definitely benefits from a little time in the bottle/keg.

 

[Cavpilot2000]

I would say that time in the bottle/keg is detrimental, but you have to let the particles settle out at the same time.
On my currently tapped one, I used a floating dip tube and problem solved. The yeast and nasty hot hops particles fall to the bottom and you pull beer from the top of the keg.
If you are bottle filling from a keg, you would also have the same benefit.

 

[degivens]

It should settle to the bottom, but since you're using bottles, pour gently and carefully and leave the last ounce or so in the bottle.

It reminds me of black pepper. It's the reason I started using a floating dip tube (Clearbeer draft system) in my NEIPA kegs: let the crap settle to the bottom and putt the beer from the top.

Are you still able to do a pressurized or gravity fed transfer via the liquid out port with that thing hooked up?

 

[Cavpilot2000]

Are you still able to do a pressurized or gravity fed transfer via the liquid out port with that thing hooked up?

To be clear, I'm talking about a floating dip tube in the keg.
But yes, I can do a pressurized transfer via my Beer Gun to bottle with it.
Even though the device is designed for a keg, I imagine you could also use it in any kind of primary fermenter you might be using if you were going to go from primary or bottling bucket to bottle.

Caveat: if you were transferring from some kind of fermenter or bottling bucket with a bottom spigot for gravity transfer, you'd have to install the floating dip tube before filling the vessel (you would attach one end of the silicone tube to the interior side of the spigot/valve).

 

[Mothman]

I just finished bottling my NEIPA and I poured myself a small taste. There is a real hot hop bitter flavor I think from small floating hop particles. I did not filter in anyway and on a 5.5 gallon batch dry hopped with 8 oz and whirlpooled with 8 oz.

Will these drop to the bottom once cold or will the flavor die down?

I just tried my first crack at an NEIPA as well, bottled middle of last week. Taste samples at bottling were intensely bitter, despite the bulk of my hop additions being whirlpool and dry hops.

I opened my tester bottle last night, even though it was only 4 days in the bottle and I knew it would be uncarb'd (did it for science), and the bitterness is way less harsh. Unfortunately, all the peachy awesome hop aroma I had during primary and at bottling is also gone .... ... but yeah, the bitterness faded to a much more reasonable level in a hurry. Assuming it was due to suspended hop residue that settled out once the bottle was chilled.