Re: Question about Dry Hopping

Only the obvious one...wait. Why do you have to bottle on Sat.?

---------->Denny

wait til next saturday?

I'm assuming you're using whole hops (my server only posted a few replies...) If you really want to bottle on Saturday try this:

Rack into another carboy or bucket - put a sanitized SS scrubby on the bottom of your racking cane. Then rack again into your bottling bucket using the same cane/ scrubby set-up. You can do this in the same day, same hour of you want. That should get rid of most if not all of your floating hops.

Also, I've never seen green, or any color sludge on top of a beer.

Good luck

well I've waited. it's been 20 days in the secondary and the hops haven't settled to the bottom. *sigh*. Will they ever? The majority of them have settled but there's still a 'film' of hops on the top and lots of hop particles floating around in the beer. What should I do next? should I just siphon and strain it through a sieve or a cheesecloth?

Thanks

Roger

Ignore it and bottle or keg your beer like normal. A small piece here or there won't affect your beer any. Besides, if you use a siphon like an autosiphon, almost none of the hops will actually make it into the final vessel. I always have some hops stuck to the side and floating around when I dry hop with pellets. No problem and nobody has complained about the beer.

BTW ... NEVER, EVER use cheesecloth. You will just ruin a good beer ... my opinion of course (always have to have a disclaimer in this group).

First off...why are you cross-posting with 4 different newsgroups???

Other than that, you don't want to strain your finished brew through anything as it can allow too much O2 into the beer. Just do as Tom V said and bottle/keg. I brewed an IPA a month or so ago and used pellet hops for dry hopping. THere were plenty of floaties during the first couple pints but that was about it. Well, other than the last pint or so...it definitely let me know my keg was almost kicked :(

first of all..what is your definition of dry hopping? did you add theseminutes before the end of the boil? if you added them after and chilled it before the pellets were toalla moisten you might have probs. Whatever the case, the best way i can think of to help this is get a 4" mesh fish net from any petco or walmart pet dept. and skim off the floaters like you would a swimming pool (only in miniture). Then continue as normal.

The definition of "dry hopping" is adding hops to the fermenter, usually secondary.

----------->Denny