Moray
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last night I racked my lager into the secondary.
I'm trying dry hopping for the first time.
what I did was make a tea with the hop pellets, and boiling water, let it sit for a couple of minutes. then added it to the secondary unfiltered, and racked the primary onto it.
brew had been in primary for 10 days, slightly longer than I usally leave it. S.G. last night was 1012
and the taste was fantastic.
by questions are how long to leave in the secondary, to get the hop aromas ?
Given the brew has pretty much finished, I would usally bottle the brew on sunday, which would give me 2 weeks total in fermenters. But due to the longer primary, I would only be getting 4 days in secondary, which I suspect won't be enough.
If I leave it to the following weekend, would the hops become overpowering ?
and as to bottling as per GMKs info in other posts I am going to get an inline irrigation filter, and filter it into the bottling bucket.
anyone have any advice on this ?
cheers
Moray
I'm trying dry hopping for the first time.
what I did was make a tea with the hop pellets, and boiling water, let it sit for a couple of minutes. then added it to the secondary unfiltered, and racked the primary onto it.
brew had been in primary for 10 days, slightly longer than I usally leave it. S.G. last night was 1012
and the taste was fantastic.
by questions are how long to leave in the secondary, to get the hop aromas ?
Given the brew has pretty much finished, I would usally bottle the brew on sunday, which would give me 2 weeks total in fermenters. But due to the longer primary, I would only be getting 4 days in secondary, which I suspect won't be enough.
If I leave it to the following weekend, would the hops become overpowering ?
and as to bottling as per GMKs info in other posts I am going to get an inline irrigation filter, and filter it into the bottling bucket.
anyone have any advice on this ?
cheers
Moray