Feening to dry hop the Pliny

[Stinkfist]

If you cold crash the beer before you transfer it you will not lose much beer to the hops, they compact pretty well if you can get it down to mid to low 30's them rack, don't be scared man just throw them in there

[Ozwald]

As I said in the OP, it's in a standard carboy. I would love to let them go free, but I cant let any of this beer go because I only have about 3.5 gallons. I plan to bag them. I will just wait until it is done and throw them in the keg.

I would still let them go free & they'll also be more effective in giving you that wonderful dankness. Crash it as cold as you possibly can and they'll settle out & really not suck up that much of your beer. Another option involving bagging would be to use multiple smaller bags. Hop bags in kegs are always fun (as long as you tie them off or seal the string through the keg opening - don't ask why I know this) and can give a really fresh taste, however you'll probably just want to leave them in there until the keg blows... which should take about 15 minutes with 3.5 gallons of Pliny

[BenTen]

I think ill just wait it out, and then bag the hops in the keg with marbles for a couple weeks before carbonating. Clarity? Fugetaboutit, I drink ales. I predict 2 weeks before the keg blows.

[Stinkfist]

I think ill just wait it out, and then bag the hops in the keg with marbles for a couple weeks before carbonating. Clarity? Fugetaboutit, I drink ales. I predict 2 weeks before the keg blows.

Make sure you hook the hop bag to some fishing line and suspend it so it does not get stuck in your dip tube or you will get a lot less beer than if you just went commando in the fermenter

[BenTen]

I think ill just wait it out, and then bag the hops in the keg with marbles for a couple weeks before carbonating. Clarity? Fugetaboutit, I drink ales. I predict 2 weeks before the keg blows.

Make sure you hook the hop bag to some fishing line and suspend it so it does not get stuck in your dip tube or you will get a lot less beer than if you just went commando in the fermenter

Great advice, thanks brother man.

[spiderwrangler]

If you move to secondary during an active fermentation there is a good chance you will stall the fermentation unless you drag all of the yeast along too. Then the question begs as to why you would move to secondary anyway?
If you rack off of the primary yeast cake, the yeast will attempt to repopulate to the best of their abilities and you may get fermentation in your secondary, but it probably won't be as strong as if you left it alone and it may not (probably won't) finish where you want it to. The yeast repopulating will also create another, albeit smaller, yeast cake, so again the move to secondary won't be very productive from a clearing standpoint.

IMHO, secondaries are far overrated unless you are using them primarily to clear or age on wood.
Dry hop in the primary.

If you do move over to a second vessel, there will be plenty of yeast still in suspension, it is this that will drop out more than a new population starting up. IF there is a lot of other material, transferring may help in clarification, but more time or a drop in temp of the primary can accomplish the same thing. In general though, an actual 'secondary fermentation' would not be expected unless you add additional sugars.

[BenTen]

After the discussions here I would love to drink some of this ale with you guys! If anyone is in the Denver area and wants to "give me some feedback", hit me up!

Cheers everyone!