Questions tagged [dry-hop]
Technique of adding unboiled hops to the fermentor to give hop aroma and possibly additional bitterness.
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Sanitizing additives (herbs)
I’m brewing Albea Cerevisiae - an old polish recipe for a white beer with herbs.
I added some herbs to the boil, but didn’t get much of the flavor and aroma I wanted.
Now I want to dry-herb my beer in ...
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Why are AAU not specified for dry hopping?
As title really - I just noticed a few different recipes, different sites and authors, that specify AAU for bittering and finishing hops, but dry hops just by mass.
Is it because the amount is ...
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Brewing a NEIPA under pressure: magnet in dry hop bag is stuck to the tilt hydrometer. Should I open & remove?
I'm brewing a NEIPA in a Kegland Fermzilla under 10psi of pressure, and I planned to have 2 dry hops without depressurizing or opening the fermentor. I have a tilt hydrometer in the fermentor and ...
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Does the presence of hops in early unfermented beer retard the fermentation process?
I've been making a heather ale (so not of the usual process of making an beer wort). I got the Boadicea hops for aroma, but because I got them the day after making the wort (poor organisation on my ...
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Three days into fermenting beer and getting really sharp, bitter flavors, will that mellow out?
I'm 3 days into fermenting my IPA in a Fermentasaurus under pressure (if it makes a difference) and I've just taken a hydrometer reading, all better than expected. The beer looks beautiful and hazy, ...
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Fermentation time
I am looking for some advice.
I successfully completed a first all grain batch on the brewzilla (OG 1.048). Airlock activity ~every min at day 14 (yeast S-04 @ 18dc).
Dry hopped loose (~80g total) on ...
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Dry Hopping Cider
I’ve taken to making Cider and quite enjoy it. I now finalize my fermentation (temp controlled) at 1.015Gs before bottling or kegging. In the case of bottling I still prime with sugar and then test ...
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Oxidation in Secondary Fermenter
I have a question about the liklihood of oxidation during secondary fermenting.
I'm brewing a NEIPA, second brew ever, from NorthernBrewer. OG 1.068, now 1.032 after 15 days in primary. Directions ...
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Dry Hopping Measuring Cup
When measuring hops for dry hopping, do I need to sanitize the cup I put the hops in on my scale? I recently started buying hops in bulk and I've never had to weigh hops before pouring them into the ...
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Dry hop to add depth of flavour?
This is kind of hard to explain, but I'll try. Ive got quite a nice flavoured, mostly chinook hopped beer in the fermenter, but I was wondering if I could add another dimension to the flavour with a ...
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Hops Wort Absorption
According to BYO malt absorbs roughly 1.04L of water per kg malt. Knowing this makes calculating things like mash and sparge water quite a bit easier.
Is there a rough absorption rate for hops?
I've ...
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Is heady topper a NEIPA/ DIPA or both?
I'm from Australia so we don't really have good access to Heady Topper, Treehouse or Trilium NEIPAs. I have been looking at the heady topper clone on byo.com -https://byo.com/recipe/alchemist-heady-...
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Messed up West Coast IPA recipe, could dryhopping make it good?
My first batch, I followed a recipe using malt extract to create a West Cost IPA.
The wording of the recipe made me invert the Hop additions...
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2oz of Centinennial at 0mins left ...
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Aggressive dry hopping schedule normal?
So I'm looking through single hop recipes pretty much anywhere. When I came a across brewdogrecepies.com I was a bit surprised to find their dry hopping is pretty aggressive.
Most of the recipes use ...
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"Debugging" a bitter DDH NEIPA
I brewed a DDH NEIPA recently and it was a great learning experience.
I got the aromatics I was looking for but the flavor was bitter. The batch was bound to be wonky because of size limitations ...
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Beer has off flavor, sample taken while bottling tasted good
I brewed an IPA about 3 weeks ago. Everything went fine during fermentation and I've dropped a couple of hop pellets 4 days before bottling into the fermenter as I planned to do.
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How does alcohol affect flavour/aroma when dry hopping?
As a chemist, I know that extraction (from hops in this case) can be different for water (hop tea), beer (eg. 7% ABV), or pure ethanol. So in theory it should make a big difference if I dry hop with ...
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Can I over-filter my beer?
I'm going to dry hop my very first IPA (without a bag) and I've read that when bottling I will need to put some kind of filtering cloth on the end of the racking cane to prevent hops sediment from ...
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Dry hopping fruit beer
I am making a batch of apricot honey ale. i just added my appricots on secondary and want to dry hop later.
Do I need to rack the beer to tertiary before dry hopping or just throw in the hops once ...
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Dry hopping in the keg using a dry hopper
I've never dry hopped in a corny keg before. I purchased a dry hopper with a 300 micron screen.
1. How do you tie the dry hopper so it floats? I've heard satin dental floss works well?
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Beer looses almost all carbonation when opened
I followed this recipe for making an APA.
Since I have a smaller brewing kit (10~12 liters pan and fermentation bucket), I divided the ingredients for two batches:
First one following every step and ...
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How to achieve that hoppy aroma and top notes
Me and my brewing buddy have been brewing beers for some years now, we are pretty satisfied with our end products. Hardly any of that yeasty taste that can be quite prominent with home brews.
We ...
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Quick advice for dry-hopping and racking to secondary
tomorrow I'll brew an English style IPA with extract.
I want to dry-hop in the conditioning phase, so, considering I'm using S04 on a small batch, I'll probably add the hops on Wednesday. It should be ...
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Will dry hopping without a hop bag give me "hop floaties"?
I've read numerous posts and articles on dry hopping in primary, secondary, and kegs. My current brew calls (AIPA) calls for dry hopping. I've think, after reading these articles, that I'd like to ...
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Dry hopping and massive gas release
I've been making an American IPA from young's which was sat at 1.010 SG for a couple of days. This is the point at which the instructions suggest I add the hop pellets.
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Hop Bags, What are the Advantages?
So I am sort of new at this. I ordered some hop bags as an add on item but have not yet used them. In the past I always dropped my hop pellets right into the boiling wort. But I plan to make a ...
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Is it too soon to keg if im storing for a few weeks?
I just dry hopped an IPA i brewed on July 30th. I plan on kegging it next Wednesday, exactly one week from today. The Beer has had a full 10 days of primary fermentation so far and is only going to ...
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Using a hop back before bottling?
I'm wondering about approaches for getting maximum hop aroma, and i got looking at the hop back - in particular the hop rocket or similar.
Having read about dry hopping etc, and the fact that it ...
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How much time to dry hop and why?
I'm thinking about brewing an IPA.
My doubt is about "short dry hopping" vs "length dry hopping" I am thinking to go for 2 days minimum and 7 days maximum.
I want to know your opinions and ...
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When to dry hop for Bulldog Evil Dog?
I just want some advice on when to dry hop for this. I like my beers to be hoppy as hell!
The stage I'm at;
-the brew has been going for 6 days (hydrometer reading of 1.03 (initial probably 1.065, ...
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Dry hopping a lager in secondary
I've just moved my first lager into a secondary bucket, it had been in primary for about 3 weeks. Currently sitting in the keezer at about 10c.
The recipe I'm following calls for the addition of ...
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Dry hopping do's and dont's?
Hi me and my future wife are brewing a bunch of different beers for our wedding. Next up is an IPA so we are curious of how the dry hopping process works. I'm looking for do's and don'ts and also a ...
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"FV" abbreviation in BrewDog recipe
I am attempting to follow a recipe in BrewDog's excellent DIY DOG
(see Albino Squid Assassin recipe, page 217)
As hop additions, as the last 2 additions it lists:
* Chinook 100g FV Aroma
* Citra ...
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I'm worried about adding germs to my brew when dry hopping
I'm looking at these instructions - http://www.geterbrewed.com/craft-a-beer-instructions/ (I promise I'm not selling anything).
In section 13, it says something along the lines of "Add the hops after ...
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Opinions on my hop schedule for double IPA?
Being only a third time brewer, and feeling ambitious and experimental i decided to step away from kit directions and experiment. anyone have experience with the following combo? any opinions on how ...
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cold crashing question
My fridge holds a damn near constant and consistent temp at whatever i set it at. I am thinking about cold crashing my double IPA and this would be my first time trying this technique. I heard there ...
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is 5 weeks enough for my double IPA?
I am Currently working on a double IPA with a predicted abv between 8%-9%..I am leaving it in one vessel. I was wondering if anyone thought 4 weeks in primary, then adding my dryhops and leaving for ...
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dry hopping in primary?
Okay, so I am currently working on my first batch that I Intend to Dry hop. I am getting a ton of mixed messages and want to see what the majority thinks. So I have finally come to the conclusion that ...
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Dry Hopping Question
I am super new to brewing but extremely ambitious. I just have a dry hop question so I hope you see this. So I'm currently fermenting a double IPA with Columbus for bittering and Cascade for aroma. ...
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Plastic Bucket - Primary & Dry Hopping
I will be brewing an IPA this weekend and fermenting in a bucket...so much easier to clean afterwards.
Once fermentation is complete, I am going to dry hop for 7-10 days in the primary. That ...
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Is there any reason to re-rack and wait another week after dry hopping before bottling?
Is there any reason to re-rack and wait another week after dry hopping before bottling? The only reason I can think of is for settling of residual dry hopped particulates. But if you don't syphon ...
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green sludge floating
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3nIWsUoDjs2RVlsZ3FnaWdYRjQ/edit?usp=docslist_api
I am brewing a double IPA. The beer is in the secondary and has been there for 10 days. I recorded 7.8% alc when I ...
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"Dry hop" etymology
What exactly the "dry" means in the "dry hop" expression ?
Does it refers to a dry flavor of hop in beer? Or because the hops were added to beer in a dried form? Could it be called or explained as "...
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lots of gas coming from secondary
Before I racked to secondary, I had checked the gravity a few days apart to make sure fermentation had completed. After racking to secondary, I waited a few days to let it settle out. The water in the ...
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Hops - Do they stay in the wort for the primary fermentation or not?
I have two sets of instructions for putting the wort into the primary fermentation bucket. One says to just dump the entire contents of the wort into the bucket. The second says to stir like crazy ...
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Should dry hopped beer be lightly stirred prior to bottling?
I'm making an IPA and I'm going to be dry hopping it this weekend in the secondary fermentation phase. I've been thinking about the dry hopping process alot, mainly about the diffusion of the ...
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How many times can you re-use a hop bag?
Is there a limit on how many times you can re-use a hop bag?
I use the bag to make a hop tea to drop into the fermenter to flavor my beer.
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Where is the oil produced from dry hopping?
This might sound like a weird question, but there I go. From what I read and learnt "dry hopping adds fragile aromatic oils".
I wanted to know where do these oils settle in the carboy? On top of the ...
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Advice on my second batch
I recently completed my first batch, which was the DIPA kit from Brewer's Best. It actually turned out much better than I could have imagined, so I was very pleased. My only complaints, and these ...
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Does Dry Hopping create a white film with bubbles?
Might be a weird question!
I have brewed, with a friend, 6 batches of beer so far. An IPA, then a Stout, a Saison, a Doppelbock, an Baltic Porter and finally, the same IPA. All grain, always.
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