Dry hopping

Buccaneer · Post by **Buccaneer** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 9:57 am

Doing my first dry hop and, because I'm lazy, I'm wondering about what I can get away with. Everything I've read suggests racking to a secondary and dry hopping there. But could I get away with just chucking the hops into the primary after a week or so? What am I risking by doing that?

Post by **RubberToe** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 10:02 am

Yes. Nothing.

There are other dry hopping methods but that is a good one. There's certainly nothing wrong with putting them in the primary, I do that 100% of the time. Just make sure fermentation is finished (or mostly).

mcgster · Post by **mcgster** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 10:53 am

Yes primary all the way.

Many commercial breweries, most notably Stone, advocate adding them just as fermentation is wrapping up as there is thought that the yeast activity + aromatic oils will produce some good flavours.

I just chuck them into my primary for 3 to 5 days, then rack to a keg. I used to add them to the keg in a mesh bag after cold crashing but thats not worth the hassle.

Buccaneer · Post by **Buccaneer** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:09 am

mcgster wrote:Yes primary all the way.

I just chuck them into my primary for 3 to 5 days, then rack to a keg.

I was planning on precisely this.

Thanks gents!

jacinthebox · Post by **jacinthebox** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:12 am

I dry hop in the primary...cold crashing helps to quickly knock out the hop gunk. I dry hop for 4 days

ivorm · Post by **ivorm** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:20 am

I've only made extract brews so far. I made a double IPA from Everwood where I had a lot of loss in the primary due a lot of gunk in the bottom then dry hopped in secondary and lost a lot again due to the high dose of hops which I didn't really account for in my batch size. If I had my time back I would have added them to the primary an maybe minimize some of my loses. Not sure if it would have helped or not.

Buccaneer · Post by **Buccaneer** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 2:29 pm

There have been a few references to cold crashing. Can I infer from this that you just toss the hops in without some sort of mesh bag? I was going to use a bag, but again only because that seems to be what people do. Again, advantages/disadvantages?

RossBee · Post by **RossBee** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 6:38 pm

A three inch tea ball works well for this, contains most of the gunk.

Bluefin 774 · Post by **Bluefin 774** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 9:46 pm

I have used the 3 inch hop ball (like a tea strainer only bigger) and just thrown hop pellets in the primary bucket after 7 days. I usually dry hop for 7 days. With 1 ounce of hop pellets I found the hop ball very full and compacted. The next time I just tossed the hops in loose and after 5 days I cold crashed for two days and the hops went to the bottom. They loose pellets in the bucket worked easier in my opinion.

Albert · Post by **Albert** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 10:20 pm

Fwiw my method: Ferm til it's done,( til the gravity settles) toss hops in, leave 5-7 days then rack to keg (o bottlin bucket) using strainer on racking cane outlet.

Hit it with gelatin if you're not lazy and appreciate clear beer...but that's another thread

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