Now I've got my cooling sorted, I'm trying to work out in my own mind when to dry hop when cold crashing.
I've now done a couple of brews and cold crashed then down to 4c for a few days and all goes well, but these haven't been dry hopped.
I'm about to do a recipe with 100g of dry hops in the fermentor - typically I do this for 4 days then keg. Question is - what will be the best time to dry hop in this case? I'm loathe to drop it into a secondary for the cold crash (although I could) as it ,might become contaminated.
So the question is - if I'm cold crashing for 4 days, do I put the hops in at the start of the cold crash, or for four days then cold crash? Will it affect the outcome? Or should I drop into the secondary and cold crash there.........?
Dry hopping and cold crashing
Dry hopping and cold crashing
It started with kits to save money and now look........!!!
Lots of kit, too many ingredients and not enough time, but a patient wife.... who loves my beer...........
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Lots of kit, too many ingredients and not enough time, but a patient wife.... who loves my beer...........
Could be worse :-)
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Re: Dry hopping and cold crashing
There was just a topic on this which should prove helpful:
viewtopic.php?f=86&t=80925
Long story short - bung em in! My personal preference is add them near the end of fermentation, then crash out, yeast, pellets and all.
viewtopic.php?f=86&t=80925
Long story short - bung em in! My personal preference is add them near the end of fermentation, then crash out, yeast, pellets and all.
Re: Dry hopping and cold crashing
:s per Robwalkeragain, I add before end of fermentation and then cold crash. Syphon off the trub into a corny sand wait for drinking time.
Re: Dry hopping and cold crashing
Sorry typo. and not sand!
Re: Dry hopping and cold crashing
100g is a good amount of hops, I would throw them in a couple of points before FG so hopefully the yeast can eat any oxygen that gets put in. Then cold crash after 4 days (it will also give the yeast to clean up a little).
If you cold crash then hop it will take a lot longer for the hop flavor to come out.
I did just read on another forum someone suggesting to vacume seal the hops to get most of the air out then chuck them in, but I think this was for flowers.
If you cold crash then hop it will take a lot longer for the hop flavor to come out.
I did just read on another forum someone suggesting to vacume seal the hops to get most of the air out then chuck them in, but I think this was for flowers.
Re: Dry hopping and cold crashing
This is an interesting article on dry-hopping...https://www.rockstarbrewer.com/how-dry- ... -the-risk/
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Re: Dry hopping and cold crashing
That is interesting! Yet another off-flavour pitfall...