Will a cold crash make everything fall?

[BL41R]

We are dry hopping for 5 days with 3oz of pellets. We have the extra fine bag, but I think I'm just gonna dump them in loose.
We plan on cold crashing in an ice bath for 3-4 days.
Also, we're not using a secondary.

Will there be any pellet crap still floating after the cold crash?
And if do use the hop bag, will it be difficult to remove? (It will be tied with long piece of floss)

 

[JimRausch]

Yep, the cold crashing should drop any floating hop particles.
I have two carboys that I have used for secondary conditioning/dry hopping. The 'Better Bottle' has a relatively wide neck and the bag of hop remains came out easily. The glass carboy has a fairly narrow neck, and it's a little more difficult getting the hop bag out of that. But the remains are squishable so they do come. Just make sure you remove it after you have transferred the beer to keg/bottling bucket.

 

[notixx]

I had dry hopped a recent batch with hop pellets without using a bag of any sort. I had lots of debris floating (and i mean tons)

I read up on cold crashing and understood that it would not help too much with dropping out hop sediment, and was better for generally clearing the beer and dropping out the yeast.

I simply tied a sanitized hop sock over my autosiphon (the end that goes into the fermenter) and had no issues and very little loss.

 

[Yooper]

In my experience, hops debris doesn't fall out. Oh, some does, but not most of it.

It doesn't matter, though. Just start your siphon in the middle of the beer, below any floaters and above any trub, and then lower it as the level of the beer drips. I'm an old winemaker, and very proficient with racking but some people will sanitize a hops bag and use that to help filter out any large particles from being sucked up into the siphon.

 

[BL41R]

Ok, I had a feeling that a cold crash wouldn't drop the pellet crap. I will rack like you said, Yooper, and possibly use the hop bag as a filter towards the end of my racking. (on the hose)