Help needed to dry hop a Woodfordes Nelson's Revenge, please

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mikeyt

Help needed to dry hop a Woodfordes Nelson's Revenge, please

Post by mikeyt » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:02 pm

I've currently got a Nelson's Revenge in primary. It is now 5 days old, and the gravity has fallen from 1.045 to 1.015 in that time, of which I am very pleased!

I'm going to be putting in into the secondary, for 2 weeks, before I bottle it. I want to dry hop it, but am not too sure how, or how much. This is what I am currently thinking - is it right, is it wrong, is it too much, is it too little? Thanks in advance for all the information that will come!! :D

It's a 36 pint kit. I've got a 100g vacuum sealed packet of fuggles hops. I am intending on taking about 25g of these, boiling them up for 10 minutes in a small amount of water, and then putting it in the secondary bucket. In two weeks time, when it's bottling time, and the beer gets moved to my bottling bucket, I intend on removing them. This seem ok? And what is the best way to store the rest of the hops? In the freezer until needed next time?

Thank you. :D

Kit_Maker

Post by Kit_Maker » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:24 pm

I recently dry hopped a Woodfordes Wherry in Secondary. I put 25g hops into a nylon bag and tied a glass weight to it to sink it. I left it in for a week before removing the bag and bottling. While it has added alot of aroma to tbe beer there is a slight grassy taste off the beer. The next time I dry hop I will only leave the bag in secondary for about 4 days as I think a week is overdoing it a bit, maybe using 20g instead of 25g also.

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Post by oxford brewer » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:34 pm

Try leaving the hops in the keg for longer(or until its drunk :wink: ) and the grassyness will go.

mikeyt you dont need to boil the hops when dry hopping just put them in loose!
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Post by oblivious » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:53 pm

Add little hot water over the hop will help release the aromatics (don’t boil) add the hops and water to the keg/secondary for two weeks

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