When to dry hop

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When to dry hop

Post by Yosh » Sat Jul 23, 2016 5:44 pm

Hi Guys,

I'm following a recipe for a punk IPA clone but I'm a little unsure when to dry hop. it says 5 days, is this supposed to be 5 days into fermentation or five days before bottling?

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Re: When to dry hop

Post by 6470zzy » Sat Jul 23, 2016 6:00 pm

After primary fermentation is complete, transfer to secondary and dry hop for 5 days.

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Re: When to dry hop

Post by Yosh » Sat Jul 23, 2016 6:27 pm

cheers

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Re: When to dry hop

Post by Good Ed » Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:21 pm

Alternatively according to your preference, you would leave in the primary FV and add the hops towards the end of fermentation and leave for 3 days at fermentation temperature. If you are using a lot of dry hops (over 50g) you would want to do this in 2 batches.

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Re: When to dry hop

Post by MTW » Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:59 am

When the beer is relatively clear of yeast, which will only drag oils from your hops out of solution if you go too early. The duration with the hops is determined for me by the time it takes for them to drop out; I don't bag them. What I can do, is control how long they get at specific temperatures. The warmer, the quicker the extraction. When they're chilled down, there's very little further extraction, but the beer clears quicker.

Pellets or leaves? I find pellets need less time warm to gain the same perceived extraction. Sometimes just a day at 20C,before crash chilling.

Some commercial breweries dry hop cooler, to avoid autolysis. It's been shown to be less of a problem in small vessels, and seems to be one aspect where we may be better off ignoring commercial practices.

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Re: When to dry hop

Post by orlando » Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:04 pm

Good Ed wrote:Alternatively according to your preference, you would leave in the primary FV and add the hops towards the end of fermentation and leave for 3 days at fermentation temperature. If you are using a lot of dry hops (over 50g) you would want to do this in 2 batches.

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