OK, so my plan is to get my ferm fridge with my 2x6 collar ready to go for my next brew to ferment in a keg. My question is, should it have a dry hop component, how would I hook up the tubing? Is it gas post on the ferm keg to gas post on the dry hop keg, then blowoff tube to a bottle of starsan? Assuming I have floating dip tubes on each. Then, once done, I hook up the liquid on the dry hop keg to the liquid on the serving keg, add the CO2 to the gas post of the dry hop keg and transfer? I know I can probably look it all up on Youtube, but thought I would ask just for the heck of it.
I have no idea what you are proposing to do. That said, when I dry hop in a keg I add the dry hops in a sanitized mesh bag (weighted), tie a knot in the top and place it into my empty serving keg. I run CO2 into that keg for a minute or two to purge oxygen a bit then stop the CO2 and seal it. Then I transfer beer from fermentation keg into the serving one with dry hops in it and start carbing it in the kegerator. Tap and serve as usual. Dry hops stay in until the keg is done.
If I understand correctly, you’re fermenting in one keg and you want to jump the beer to a second keg for dry hopping?
You want to hook up the liquid posts of the two kegs together so you can fill from the bottom. (Presumably you’ve already purged the dry hopping keg.)
The gas post on the dry hop keg gets the blowoff which can be hooked to a blowoff tube or an airlock. Just water is fine as you’re just pumping CO2 through it for a few minutes.
The gas post on the fermentation keg gets hooked up to CO2. You don’t need a lot of PSI to jump the beer but let the CO2 gently push the beer between kegs.
Disconnect everything once complete. Watch the beer line between liquid posts to turn into pure foam which will tell you that you’re done.
Think of it like serving beer from a keg into a large growler. You’re pushing CO2 into the keg with beer, the beer goes into the growler and air is displaced in the growler as it fills with beer. The only difference here is that you’re using the gas post on the dry hop keg for the displaced air instead of the mouth of the vessel.
Thanks all. I guess my plan was not written well. I am going to try again.
My thought is this. I fill my fermenter keg with my wort, pitch my yeast and seal. Put my hop bag into my hop keg and seal. Run a tube from the fermenting keg to my dry hop keg to purge the dry hop keg with the CO2 blowoff from the ferm keg. Once fermentation is done, transfer the beer under pressure from the ferm keg to the dry hop keg so that the dry hop process can start. After the number of days needed, I will clean and sanitize my serving keg by running StarSan thru it under pressure to eliminate and O2 in that keg. Hook up my dry hop keg to my serving keg and transfer the beer into my serving keg. Pressure and chill to serving temp. So, my issue is, do I run my lines from gas post of the ferm keg to gas post of the dry hop keg and run a line out of the dry hop keg to a blow off? Once done, then hook the jumper line to the liquid lines of both for transfer of beer from the ferm keg to the dry hop keg? After that is done, then lines from liquid post of the dry hop keg to liquid post of the serving keg and pressure transfer? Of course I am guessing the PRV would have to be open on the recieving kegs as liquid is transferred as well, right? I know it is a bit confusing but I am trying to eliminate any O2 exposure during the process and I have all these kegs that are available to me. Also, each of these kegs will have a floating dip tube to eliminate any splashing and try and pick up only the beer and as little sediment as possible
I hope that makes more sense. Thanks for reading. Dino
I think I follow you, but the leaving of the PRV open on the receiving keg should be avoided, if possible. Instead a blow off arrangement from the gas post of the receiving keg into a solution jar or attach a spunding valve set at a low psi, instead, if you want to reduce foam in the transfer process.
Yes, a spunding valve would be nice there.
I would let the fermenter’s C02 go into the liquid post of the dry hop keg and relieve pressure on the gas post.
I only dry hop in the serving keg. Get incredible hop aromas and flavors with no grassy flavors Don’t believe the dogma
heubrewer, you posted about 20 cloned threads in the general forum. would you mind deleting them?
I just did. When I posted it kept giving me error messages saying there was an error and try again. I thought maybe it was the title. That was embarrassing
Really? I have read that if you keep the hops there too long it gets the off flavors and the grassy flavors. Hmmm. I have a recipe that is a light dry hop, maybe that will be my test run to see how this all works.
I have heard that as well but I have not experienced that with the U Sccitrus hops (Citra Mosaic Amarillo and Falconers Flight mix which I mainly use). The hop aroma diminishes over time (say a month) but no other flavors unless I am not sensitive to it. I use hop pellets in a large spice balls.
That is my experience