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Thanks to everyone who responded to my post about dry hopping.  I did notice there are small bubble around the hops at the top.  I'm thinking of using a cheese cloth hop bag  to attach to the hose when I rack the beer into my bottling bucket. Of course I'll sanitize the hop bag.  Any thoughts?  Just hoping to get as much hops of the beer as possible.

SHIRLEY said:

Thanks to everyone who responded to my post about dry hopping.  I did notice there are small bubble around the hops at the top.  I'm thinking of using a cheese cloth hop bag  to attach to the hose when I rack the beer into my bottling bucket. Of course I'll sanitize the hop bag.  Any thoughts?  Just hoping to get as much hops of the beer as possible.

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Hi Shirley,

I have so far only dry hopped one 5 gallon batch.  I did the dry hopping by dumping loose 2 oz. of pellets into the secondary fermenter for a week.

When I was ready to transfer the beer to  keg using autosiphon and hose,  I didn't want to transfer a lot of hop debris so I fixed  a small nylon mesh hop bag to teh delivery end of the hose.  I left it sort of loose as a bag so it wouldn't easily get blocked, and secured it to the end of the hose with a hose clamp.  It seemed to work just fine.

A lot of folks seem to do the dry hopping right in the keg instead and I might try that next time.  If I do, I plan on just dumping the hop bag with pellets into the keg and leaving it there for the duration.  I would weight it down with some stainless steel nuts, bolts etc.

Brian.

Ladies nylon knee-highs, and glass marbles, tied with fishing line or flavorless dental floss.

The hops will eventually sink if you wait long enough.