Centennial APA

[196osh]

Cool think I will drop it into a secondary for dry hopping I think I am going to adjust how I dry hop.

I am going to lay a sheet of muslin so that it hangs half way down into the fermenter then just sit the hops so they almost float free, but when I run off from the fermenter I wont have any issues with clogging or hop particles?

[mysterio]

Sounds clever.. maybe you could hang it 7/8ths of the way down and 'teabag' it every day or two?

Come to think of it.. the hops don't really sink, do they

[196osh]

Sounds clever.. maybe you could hang it 7/8ths of the way down and 'teabag' it every day or two?

Come to think of it.. the hops don't really sink, do they

No they don't which I find slightly annoying I feel like the hops are not coming into contact with as much beer whillst trapped inside the bag. Sort of getting lower utliisation of them as some of the flavour/aroma is trapped. When opening up muslin bags post dry hop I always find the hops smell amazing and I want that in my beer.

This means as say 10 litres or so of beer is avaliable for the hops to float in mabye I could gently stir. I know that Brewdog rouse their dry hops by bubbling quite a lot of CO2 into the beer twice a day every day during when they dry hop.

An experiment.

[mysterio]

That's what i've been doing, gently stirring... doesn't work terribly well but it's better than nothing. I've thought about recirculating but it's probably a recipe for infection/oxidation.

[196osh]

That's what i've been doing, gently stirring... doesn't work terribly well but it's better than nothing. I've thought about recirculating but it's probably a recipe for infection/oxidation.

Wouldnt worry too much about infection but I would guess it could get oxidised pretty quickly. Mabye with a pressurisable stainless number you could pump CO2 a la the brewery.

mmmm I would love of these numbers:

[simple one]

I have been experimenting with similar methods to both of you.... and I am now thinking that (what everyone told me in the first place) I am going to use the old muslin bag and marble technique. In the corny for, er, corny beers and in secondary for bottled beers. The only time I put them in loose and achieved a fully sucsessfull dry hop was when I gassed up a budget keg fitted with a hop stopper on the inside of the outflow. I then ran the beer in to just under th brim the small opening in the top of the budget keg forced the majority of the hops to be submersed. It was a lot of bother though.