Dry Hopping

[Siborg]

I have about 160g of nice galaxy flowers that I am considering dry-hopping my stone & wood-inspired galaxy ale with. I normally stick to 1-2g per L when dry hopping with pellets. I'm tempted to throw the whole lot in as they smell amazing. My question is: how much is too much? Will 160g of dry hopped galaxy be overkill? It is a fairly low IBU beer. In fact, there is no bittering addition at all. Just a fair bit late in the boil and a decent french press addition.

Thoughts?

 

[Wolfman]

I'd go easy if I was you. Maybe stick with 20g. She's a strong hop.

 

[manticle]

Aside from the fact that I like neither galaxy, nor the concept of going nuts with dry hopping, my take on it would be this: if a beer is great as is, do you need to add anything? If you think it would benefit, then be judicious.

If I made an amazing red curry from scratch, I wouldn't destroy it with 8 million chillies, despite my love of chilli. I'd add enough to accentuate the flavours that were already balanced (obviously to my tastes).

 

[Nick JD]

DO IT!

You won't do it twice. Might as well just squeeze eighteen passionfruit into each beer.

Galaxy is the appletini of pale ales. Drink it with your pinky finger extended.

 

[ekul]

Once upon a time in my bottling days i'd made a great stone and wood clone. The bag of galaxy had 4g or so in it so i put 20g into two tallies. They were lost for a few months but when i found them they were fantastic. Really resiny and passionfruity. I think the few months in the bottle let the hops settle a bit.

You could french press 60g into the fermenter and if its not enough then throw in the rest.

 

[Siborg]

You could french press 60g into the fermenter and if its not enough then throw in the rest.

Already done. Might just go with about 30-40g dry. Like I said, it's not high IBU, but I really want to get that definite galaxy aroma I get from the stone and wood.

 

[pk.sax]

I have on keg my version of it right now. Apart from the fact that I have some efficiency loss + no-chill induced extra bitterness, I only dry hopped with a tea ball (the big ones from T2) worth of galaxy flowers + motueka pellets. Trust me, the galaxy is overpowering.

 

[Siborg]

well I no-chilled and didn't add any bittering addition. I hop bursted 10g in 1 minute intervals from 5 minutes. Then 60g french pressed for 1 minute then 10 minutes. I think the IBU is really low for a pale ale, so I might add a very small bittering addition next time. Still not sure about the dry hopping. It's not going to add any bitterness but should give it that awesome fresh hop aroma. I might just go 1.5g/L and see how it turns out. Has a really nice aroma from the yeast (1272) and french press already, but I want to enhance it that little bit more.

Actually, thinking about it, I reckon 160g is definitely overkill.