Dry hopping questions

General Homebrew Discussion
1

So, I know that the whole secondary vs not secondary question has been done to death on here but…

I have an IPA that is ready for dry hops. I want to use the yeast cake for a barley wine.

should I;

  1. Go ahead and add loose hops (Whole) to the primary and not worry about it as I am planning on wash or rinse (Which ever one does not involve acid) the yeast anyway
  2. add hops to the primary in a hop sack
  3. rack to secondary on top of hops. I have a 5 gallon carboy so there won’t be a lot of headspace but I don’t have CO2 to purge the carboy.

what to do?

2

If it were me- transfer to secondary and dry hop there freeing up your yeast for the BW.

3

Agree with Euge.

4

Cool,

Thanks all!

5

I just did this with the same beers (IPA yeast to a Barley Wine).  I dry hopped with whole hops in a bag and while it worked and allowed me to rack the barley wine directly onto the yeast I didn’t get quite as much flavor from the dry hopping as I normally do.