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Contents:
  Re: Dry hopping (jeff)
  Re: Dry Hopping ("David Houseman")
  RE: Counterpressuree bottle filler ("David Houseman")
  Re: Dry Hopping (W8AV)
  Dry Hopping response (Joseph M Labeck Jr)


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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:08:11 -0400
From: jeff <climbzen at pa.net>
Subject: Re: Dry hopping

On 3/30/2012 1:01 AM, tom wrote:
>  Things I'm considering include:
>   -dumping hops in a sanitized bag directly into the secondary for about 7-10
> days
>   -finding hop oil or extract and adding it prior to bottling
>   -making a hop tea by boiling some pellets in either water of wort and adding
> it prior to bottling.  I need to figure out how much and how long to boil.
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when i dry hop i just dump them in the fermenter. i don't do secondaries 
unless i'm bulk aging or adding fruit, but if you do this would be a 
good time to add them. no need to use a bag unless you are doing it 
right in the keg and want to be able to pull them out with out 
transferring. hop extract won't work, it is for bittering and will not 
give you nice hop aroma and taste, just make a very bitter beer. i have 
never done a hop tea so can't say how it will work, but i know when 
people do it they just steep the hops they don't boil them. so in the 
end i say just dump them in, give the fermenter a little swirl and wait 
a week. if i'm doing a supper hoppy ipa i'll break my dry hop in too two 
additions and add half, wait 5 days, add the other half and wait 5 more 
days then bottle. good luck.
peace
jeff

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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:17:49 -0400
From: "David Houseman" <david.houseman at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Dry Hopping

Tom,

Do #1.  Just put the hops in a sanitized bag or tea ball.  Or not in 
anything if you have filter on your racking cane.  The hops themselves are 
antiseptic and nothing much is growing on them.   Plus by the time you are 
dry hopping, the pH of the beer has dropped and there is alcohol, so little 
then grows.

David Houseman



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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:27:44 -0400
From: "David Houseman" <david.houseman at verizon.net>
Subject: RE: Counterpressuree bottle filler

Scott,

I've made one from directions in an old issue of Brewing Techniques, Brew 
Your Own or Zymurgy.  Check these on-line.   Or even Google.   But since 
building a counter pressure bottle filler, and buying one, I won a Beer Gun. 
I would never go back.  The Beer Gun is much easier to use, far less messy 
when you screw up (my ceiling is stout colored) and the beer is just as 
carbonated.  Plus the bottles fill more consistently with less head space 
due to over foaming of the beer from the counter pressure filler.   I 
imagine you can make of of these as well with a little research.

JMHO,

David Houseman



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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:06:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: W8AV at aol.com
Subject: Re: Dry Hopping

Tom:
 
When I dry hop, I just dump the hop pellets (or flowers if I am using them) 
 into the secondary fermenter and rack the finished beer on top of  them.  
The alcohol level in the finished beer will be high enough to kill  any 
nasties that might be living on the hops.  Plus, the hops have  antiseptic 
properties that helps keep them free of the bad bugs.
 
You will just have to take extra care in racking the beer off the  dry hops 
when using pellets to make sure the hops remain behind in the  carboy and 
don't go into the keg or bottles.  I keg all my beers here  and use an inline 
filter screen to accomplish this when using pellet hops.   When I use 
flowers for dry hopping (which I do most of the time), there is less  chance of 
picking up pieces of hop material when kegging or transferring to the  
bottling bucket.
 
Hope this helps.
 
 ........Goose
Wooster, OH


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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:06:02 -0400
From: Joseph M Labeck Jr <jmlabeck at joesjokearchive.ws>
Subject: Dry Hopping response

Hi, all;

Tom Puskay was asking about the best method to "ramp up" his hop 
flavor.  A lot depends on what you're actually trying to do. I it's 
flavor and aroma, probably a sanitized bag is the best way, and probably 
the only way to get aroma into the beer, For flavor, a tea would 
probably do the trick, as long as you keep the temperature and time down 
(below boiling, and below 15 minutes). For just bitterness, hop extract 
is the easiest if all. Hope it works out for ya.

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