Quick Question: Dry Hopping method?

[Grimster]

So I have a black ipa that's ready for the dry hopping portion, do I just pitch the hops in there? Do I boil them a few minutes for sanitation purposes then toss them in? I'm going to transfer to a secondary fermenter and add the hops and bottle Friday or Saturday.

 

[BendBrewer]

I just throw them in and rack beer onto the DRY HOPS.

At this point, your beer should be pretty stable. Full of alcohol and not much for any 'infection' to eat and get going. That's how I have understood it.

 

[pkeeler]

No need to sanitize and boiling will kill many of the flavor compounds. Just throw them in.

 

[noblesquirrel]

I just throw them in and rack beer onto the DRY HOPS.

At this point, your beer should be pretty stable. Full of alcohol and not much for any 'infection' to eat and get going. That's how I have understood it.

In my past experiences with pitching onto the hops, I've found that they give plenty of nucleation sites for the CO2 to come out solution and foam over the top of the carboy. But it does work, though I put mine in after racking, or right into primary.

 

[TheMan]

This.

I just throw them in and rack beer onto the DRY HOPS.

If you rack and then throw them in they just kind of float on top...

 

[rwinzing]

What kind of dry haps are you using? I have the ingrediants for a black IPA and am considering dry hopping it as well. Cascade?

 

[BSBrewer]

so you don't need to buy one of those $30 stainless steel hoping things to dry hop - you can just rack to secondary with them right on the bottom...thank you HBT for saving me $30...thats enough to brew another batch!

 

[Grimster]

What kind of dry haps are you using? I have the ingrediants for a black IPA and am considering dry hopping it as well. Cascade?

This was the black IPA extract kit with specialty grains from Northernbrewer:

http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/black-ipa-extract-kit-1.html

So looks like the concensus is just throw them into the secondary and rack on top of it or use some sort of hops sack or ball.