I am dry hopping a beer right now. I dry hopped by putting the hops in a muslin bag and weighed it down by marbles. Having done this, I expected that I would not have to deal with much hop particles; however, this is not the case. It is 5 days in and I am blown away by the amount of hop particles that are suspended in the beer. Will this drop out by time i hit the 10-14 day mark?? When I cold crash it is there any chance that this will drop the hop particles as well??
Please advise.
Cold will drop the particles.
oh good, thank you.
+1
I just toss them in.
I do the same, after a couple days of cold crashing all the hops drop out nicely.
You using pellets, plugs, or leaf hops?
If you’re using pellets, I find a nylon bag works a lot better than muslin.
[quote=“Wahoo”]You using pellets, plugs, or leaf hops?
If you’re using pellets, I find a nylon bag works a lot better than muslin.[/quote]
+1 to this… but I try to always use whole hops when possible. A lot less particles and I feel I like the dry hop flavor with whole hops better then pellets. Could just be my imagination, but I feel I can taste a difference.
Do you keg your beer? Is that how you are cold crashing? If so you may get a few hop particles in the first few glasses and then be good after that.
I don’t mess with the muslin bags, just toss everything in.
I have been using pellet hops, have not tried whole hops yet, but maybe my next brew will feature some. I cold crash the beer in the carboy for a few days before i siphon it into my keg.
+1 to the nylon bag for pellets.
+2 for using whole hops for dry hopping.
+3 for putting the whole hops straight into secondary.
You might consider keg hopping. You’ll need to give it an extra week to condition in the keg but it works well.
