Dry Hopping

[melinda]

G'day men,
Can you use hop pellets to dry hop? I make 60L batches, so what would be a recommended amount if you can use pellets?
Thanks
Cadbury

 

[razz]

Depends on the style you are making Cadbury, for a pale ale I use about 1-1.5gms per lt.

 

[WitWonder]

G'day men,
Can you use hop pellets to dry hop? I make 60L batches, so what would be a recommended amount if you can use pellets?
Thanks
Cadbury

Depends on the beer type you're trying to make and the AA of your hops. Personally, I've used about 1.5g/L recently on an IPA with some galaxy and Citra and it's nice and hoppy to my tastes/nose.

 

[melinda]

does it matter at what stage of fermentation they are added

 

[manticle]

Vigourous fermentation will drive off some of the compounds so best to add it towards, or at the end of fermentation.

 

[mxd]

I dry hopped a pale ale in a keg with cascade and found it too over powering, so I possible should have aided the dry hops to the fermenter or secondary and only for a few days, but that just might be me and my pallet (it is learning )

But I went to transport Bar satdy night and had a pint of alpha pale ale (well maybe a few I tried as many beers as possible to see what I liked and the alpha was the only one I would go back to) and that was very "strong" on cascade aroma

 

[seemax]

mmmmm cascade mmmmmmm dry hop..... :icon_drool2: :icon_drool2:

I'm convinced cascade can do no wrong