Pellet dry hopping

[pads72]

I've dry hopped a pale ale with 50g of Nelson Sauvin pellets, chilled it down to 4 degrees C after fermentation finished to drop it clear before bottling, but on checking a sample just now, it's still full of pellet bits.

Tastes great, but looks like shite. I've just chucked in some finings, in hope, but does anyone have advice how to bring it clear?

[Rookie]

Give it more time.

[pads72]

Give it more time.

It's had about 5 days at 4degrees, but I'll wait a couple of days to see if the finings work.

From what I understood, pellet hops were supposed to be easy to dry hop with, but they just seem to dissolve and the bits sit in solution

[zgoda]

You can filter it through e.g. hop sock on racking to bright beer tank.

[pads72]

I'll give it 2 days for the finings to kick in, if no improvement, then go for the hop sock method. It's a PITA, as I thought pellets dropped out

[zgoda]

They drop out when chilled but float back to surface when beer warms up.

[Skittlebrau]

Stainless steel teaball, gouge hole to fit snugly round the end of your syphon tube. Syphon beer out to bottling bucket, keeping end of tube just below surface of beer. Tilt bucket towards end of run-off to maintain depth. Hope this helps.

*Edit. Credit to pdtnc, it was him I got this idea from.

[pads72]

Good idea Skittel (via PDTNC!)
Plan to bottle one way or the other tonight, so will see if I can get one today

[pads72]

...tea all that is

[pads72]

*teaball

[Nofolkandchance]

I've dry hopped a pale ale with 50g of Nelson Sauvin pellets, chilled it down to 4 degrees C after fermentation finished to drop it clear before bottling, but on checking a sample just now, it's still full of pellet bits.

Tastes great, but looks like shite. I've just chucked in some finings, in hope, but does anyone have advice how to bring it clear?

Crash to Ice cold and auxiliary finings. Works every time for me. I made this last year and had a shit load of pellets in but dropped bright viewtopic.php?f=24&t=63471

[pads72]

Cheers for the tips guys. In the end I used them all - crash cooled with finings & a tea ball, see below

Had a sample last night, and looking nice and clear