When to bottle after dry hopping.

[SWEadamNZ]

So I've fermented my beer for 2 weeks tomorrow and gonna dry hop for around 5 days.

My question is, can you bottle your beer as soon as your dry hopping is finished or do I want to wait a few days for the beer to settle?

I'm using a Coopers fermenting bucket so not gonna rack it to secondary. I will dry hop in a muslin bag.

Cheers

 

[porterpounder]

You can bottle as soon as your dry hop cycle is done. If you're worried about hop matter, take a new nylon hop bag, drop it in sanitizer and put the end of the syphon tube that goes in the fermenter in the bag, tie it closed to create a rough filter as you syphon into the bottling bucket. Works like a charm.

 

[mrgrimm101]

If you have the ability to cold crash I would recommend doing so. It will get all the suspended hop particles to settle out to the bottom, letting you rack clear beer into your bottling bucket. I cold crash all my dry hopped beers and it's always worked well. I don't dry hop in a muslin bag, I just toss the pellets into primary and after about 4-5 days (7 sometimes) I put the whole carboy into my garage fridge for a couple days, then bottle. Some say that cold crashing a dry hopped beer will limit the aroma (because the hop oils settle out with the yeast) but I have not found this to be the case.

 

[Elkobrewer]

Yep bottle away as soon as your done dry hopping