Hello all - I dry hop with loose T90 hop pellets for the last 2 days of fermentation. But I am left with very fine hop particles in the top inch of the beer. They are so fine that a hop spider would not help. So I strain through muslin as I bottle. Any ideas, or is it back to leaf hops? Thanks.
Thats an unusual outcome! I always use a hop spider and that has not happened. I suggest you place the hops in a bag with marbles to weight it down in the fermenter. Hop for no more that 1-2 days for dry hopping. See: Hop Creep: Causes, Effects and Prevention - Precision Fermentation.
Filtering through muslin risks oxidizidation. Can you cold crash? That will drop the hops. There is no need to weight a hop bag if that’s the route you go.
You could put your dry hops in the muslin bag before adding them to the beer.
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