The Giant
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Howdy ALl
Been doing some research on here around cold conditioning and just had some questions around it and dry hopping.
Been dry hopping in a lot of my brews and generally just chuck the hops in but have also used hop bags. I will never dry hop for more than 4 days to avoid grassiness so I always ensure to dry hop 4 days prior to bottling.
I have recently been cold conditioning as well but given the fact that I want to avoid grassiness I've only ever really cold conditioned for 2 days max. I will dry hop, wait 2 days, crank the fridge down and cold condition for 2 days, then bottle.
I have been getting some good results but want to cold condition longer. Given I dont want to rack to secondary my question is does cold conditioning eliminate the chances of your beer getting grassy flavours from dry hopping longer? Can I leave my brew with the hops for 4 days and then cold condition for a week all in the primary fermenter, or will this cause grassiness due to the fact the hops will be in there a total of 11 days?
Got a nice fat yak clone going atm and really want to get the best out of it.
Cheers
Steve
Been doing some research on here around cold conditioning and just had some questions around it and dry hopping.
Been dry hopping in a lot of my brews and generally just chuck the hops in but have also used hop bags. I will never dry hop for more than 4 days to avoid grassiness so I always ensure to dry hop 4 days prior to bottling.
I have recently been cold conditioning as well but given the fact that I want to avoid grassiness I've only ever really cold conditioned for 2 days max. I will dry hop, wait 2 days, crank the fridge down and cold condition for 2 days, then bottle.
I have been getting some good results but want to cold condition longer. Given I dont want to rack to secondary my question is does cold conditioning eliminate the chances of your beer getting grassy flavours from dry hopping longer? Can I leave my brew with the hops for 4 days and then cold condition for a week all in the primary fermenter, or will this cause grassiness due to the fact the hops will be in there a total of 11 days?
Got a nice fat yak clone going atm and really want to get the best out of it.
Cheers
Steve