Dry hopping

I’m about to dry hop an APA with pellets. What’s the best way to add them? Sanitized grain bag or just toss em in?

sanitized bag, otherwise the hops will be in you beer and you will have to filter them out. I use a small nylon bag that I boil first then fill with pellets.

I always just toss them in

I just throw them in too.  It settles well enough for me.

i just throw them in as well. after a week or so they seem to settle out. plus, i little hop debris in a dry hopped beer isn’t a bad thing IMHO

When I go to bottle, I line the bottling bucket with a 5-gallon paint strainer bag, rack in the brew, and then very gently lift out the bag.  So I don’t even get “a little hop debris”.

When I go to bottle, I line the bottling bucket with a 5-gallon paint strainer bag, rack in the brew, and then very gently lift out the bag.  So I don’t even get “a little hop debris”.

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Smoove!

Great idea!

If you’re kegging it, just make sure to rack carefully, even a little hop debris will clog up a post.

I’m a tosser.

You can say that again.

I guess that seems more popular than tea bagging  :o

I just finished my first homebrew, so I’m no expert.  However, after reading several discussion threads about dry hopping on several message boards, I just tossed in the pellets.  After about 4 days, almost all of the green sludge fell to the bottom.  When I racked to the keg, I got very little hop particles floating around in the beer.  I dry hopped for 7 days and it turned out great!

If you plan to reuse the yeast, I would use the bag.  If not, then I would toss.

Toss them in. I actually use the nylon bag at bottling time by fitting it over the end of the siphon tubing and straining it into the bottling bucket (or keg).

I just drop them in loose.