# Dip Hopping Technique

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**Category:** General Homebrew Discussion\
**Created:** [January 16, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/t/dip-hopping-technique/37099 "2025-01-16T06:40:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brewersassociation/user_avatar/forum.homebrewersassociation.org/kel/32/21101_2.png) [@Kel](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/u/Kel)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/t/dip-hopping-technique/37099/1 "2025-01-16T06:40:33Z")

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This is a new for me, only just reading about it in a recent BYO magazine. If I have it right you boil your wort as usual and ten mins in you get approx 10% of your volume out of the kettle and cool to just under 80C. This then goes into the fermenter on top of say 4/5 g of hops per litre (from BYO). After finishing the boil the remaining wort is chilled maybe a little cooler than you normally would and into the fermenter on top of the hot/warm wort. Then the usual process. Is anyone doing this now regularly and has it replaced late additions/whirlpool/hopback? Or used in addition to? Is it worth the extra steps? Must admit it sounds like a triple decoction thing to me, sounds good in theory and can see the point but not sure if I could be bothered with it. Keen to hear if anyone has tried it and the results are so good it’s worth it.

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**Author:** ![Drewch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brewersassociation/user_avatar/forum.homebrewersassociation.org/drewch/32/20911_2.png) [@Drewch](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/u/Drewch)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/t/dip-hopping-technique/37099/2 "2025-01-16T14:17:56Z")

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That’s new to me, too. So I’ve never tried it, but it sounds like a lot of trouble.

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**Author:** ![Kel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brewersassociation/user_avatar/forum.homebrewersassociation.org/kel/32/21101_2.png) [@Kel](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/u/Kel)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/t/dip-hopping-technique/37099/3 "2025-01-16T15:56:35Z")

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I was thinking on similar lines but was wondering if the results made it worth a go. Seems it’s a decades old tactic and originated in Japan. Apparently they have rules what can go into the fermenter so that makes me think, was this born through necessity or end results

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**Author:** ![denny](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brewersassociation/user_avatar/forum.homebrewersassociation.org/denny/32/13092_2.png) [@denny](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/u/denny)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/t/dip-hopping-technique/37099/4 "2025-01-16T17:15:17Z")

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That is the technique. I’ve done it a few times and decided I didn’t get anything I couldn’t have gotten more easily.

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**Author:** ![Kel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brewersassociation/user_avatar/forum.homebrewersassociation.org/kel/32/21101_2.png) [@Kel](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/u/Kel)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/t/dip-hopping-technique/37099/5 "2025-01-16T18:48:36Z")

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Cheers Denny, it goes seem to be a lot of trouble if the end result does not justify it