More advanced dry hopping techniques

[mediumsk]

I've used stainless steel bolts similar to that dowel for weighing down hop bags, nowadays I only use that for dry hopping in the keg ( as it is just as much a of a pain in the ass to get out of a carboy as a bag weighted with marbles).

I would recommend dry hopping with pellets and then allowing a good 2 days at 35 degrees to drop most of it out, A slightly larger batch size really helps too so you don't have to siphon anything off the bottom. I switched to this method about a year ago because i was getting sick of trying to find an adequate straining device for my siphon.

[BDawg]

When I first dry-hopped beers, I didn't use a hop bag. The loose hop bits clogged both my racking cane and my kegs, so I stopped that. I'd also be interested to hear techniques used by people who dry-hop with loose hops, and how they keep the hops out of the finished beer.

I toss the pellets right in the carboy. I have never had an issue with clogging--I use an autosiphon with the black tip on. You could also try putting a hop bag over the end of the racking cane--I have to imagine you could tie it on there to make it come out easily, though I haven't tried this. Also, I usually cold crash the carboy before racking, other things precipitating out may drag some of the hops down with them to help keep them from clogging (just speculating here). Occasionally I get some hop matter in the first few pints out of the keg if I am careless in racking/not cold crashing, but never enough to clog, but it tends to clear itself up.

+1. I do mine the exact same way and never had an issue. In fact, the last IPA I made in this fashion used 5 oz dry hop pellets and my very first pour out of the keg was perfectly clear.

me too

[kcschmitt]

I just throw the hops directly in and a day before racking I put the carboy in my kegarator and it drops out all hop particulate. Any that does make it in the keg comes out on the first pint I pull.