Dry hopping during active fermentation

Yeah, it seems if you wanted to accurately recreate fermentation-type bubbling you’d need something to widely disperse a low volume of gas slowly over most of the bottom surface of the beer. Almost like a big false bottom with very tiny holes. Then you’d need some kind of one-way valve to make sure beer doesn’t come back into your gas line due to the hydrostatic pressure.

Maybe you could just use a few different 500 micron stones in a “hydra” type configuration weighted near the bottom. My pediatric O2 regulator will do 1/32 LPM, but even that seems like it might be too fast. There are probably good “cap and capture” resources out there that estimate the volume of CO2 produced by a specific sized yeast colony at a specific temperature and gravity. Wow, this is starting to sound fun (and complicated).

Definitely different schools of thought.  Last IPA I held off on the dry hops until fermented out, crash cooled until bright, raised to room temps, and dry hopped 7 days swirling a few times to re-suspend and I think it’s the best results I’ve ever gotten in a long time.  Some of the big namers have bypassed CO2 rousing completely and gone full tilt pump recirc dry hop.

My own testing has given me better results by dry hopping after removing the beer from the yeast.

I have good results doing both sequentially. Nobody told me I couldn’t.  ;D

That is supposedly what Leo Fender said about the electric guitar he invented…nobody told him you couldn’t do that.  You have a good model to follow!

Thank for the info, I will check that out.