When I Dry Hop My Keg The Beer Is Difficult To Pour !

[razz]

Hi Pumpy, now you've worked out why may I suggest changing your dry hop method to secondary rather than kegging. Easier than keg dry hopping and just as effective.

 

[Smashin]

Hi Pumpy, now you've worked out why may I suggest changing your dry hop method to secondary rather than kegging. Easier than keg dry hopping and just as effective.

not to hijack but pumpy did mention this. I do use keg dry hopping when a brew comes across slightly bland and want to spice up the second keg of the brew.

 

[Pumpy]

Hi Pumpy, now you've worked out why may I suggest changing your dry hop method to secondary rather than kegging. Easier than keg dry hopping and just as effective.

razz , I dont normally do a secondary as i just do a primary and filter into the kegs , but would seriously think of just draining the batch into a keg with the dry hops and then filtering after a week CC , I suppose this would be considered as a secondary tank .

I have stopped dry hopping at the end of Primary as I find the CO2 strips the flavour and the hops weaken the yeast for the next batch

Pumpy

 

[Pumpy]

I do use keg dry hopping when a brew comes across slightly bland and want to spice up the second keg of the brew.

Smashin me too if the beer attenuates too much and lacks body dry hopping puts the body back .

Pumpy

 

[Darren]

Pumpy,

If my beer seems as if it needs a little extra "oomph" from dry hopping I usually just dump it. No point in drinking bad beer with some dry hops to spruce it up.

Try mashing a little warmer and adding some more hops to the boil.

cheers

Darren

 

[Bribie G]

Depending on the style, if you can get hop flowers or a hop plug - try putting it into a mesh 'tea ball' and drop it into the keg where it sits next to the pickup tube. Craftbrewer sell them, although out of stock just now. Using flowers or plugs would eliminate problems with cloudy stuff coming off pellets.

 

[peas_and_corn]

Beerbelly now sell giant teaballs for putting hops in, they look pretty good

 

[Fourstar]

could it be that the hops are acting as nucleation points for the co2, and this is causing an issue?

Spot on butters! I'd say it would more likly be the hop sock over the particulate hop matter.

Depending on the style, if you can get hop flowers or a hop plug - try putting it into a mesh 'tea ball' and drop it into the keg where it sits next to the pickup tube. Craftbrewer sell them, although out of stock just now. Using flowers or plugs would eliminate problems with cloudy stuff coming off pellets.

My latest beer dry hopped with a mega tea ball and a plug of hops was fine to pour with, (this was post removal of the tea ball). I'd say there is some sersious nucleation going on with the bag.

 

[jonocarroll]

Beerbelly now sell giant teaballs for putting hops in, they look pretty good

They do indeed - got one myself. Looking forward to finding out how much they can take.

 

[Adamt]

Pumpy, I dry hopped my peat smoked belgium dry stout with some cascade flowers (un-socked) in the keg with a similar problem, the pour was very slow and frothy (leaving a very low carbed brew in the glass - in this case eureka!!!). The fix - after pouring a beer take the co2 line of the keg and dump the co2 off the keg via blow off valve, this creates a small back flush through the draw off tube releasing the hop blockage (if this was the problem in the first place). In my case with the flowers were sitting at the bottom of the keg so it blocked straight back up again within a few pours but may help given you have used a hopsock.

Smashin.

... what?

 

[Effect]

... what?

was thinking the same thing...

was it a cupboard cleaner?

 

[avaneyk]

Pumpy,

If my beer seems as if it needs a little extra "oomph" from dry hopping I usually just dump it. No point in drinking bad beer with some dry hops to spruce it up.

Try mashing a little warmer and adding some more hops to the boil.

cheers

Darren

Really? :huh: I could never dump a whole days work and the ingredients for a brew just cos it was lacking "oomph" - isn't drinking the less than perfect beer how you improve your brewing?

 

[bill_gill85]

Never tried, but would it be possible to have something like a post ferment hopback? That way you don't affect the yeast from primary, could add hops either pre or post filter & not have hop material in the keg to clog up? I assume that plugs or flowers would be the best way to go & utilisation would possibly be low due to the limited contact time, but perhaps the flow would help strip the oils & aroma from the hops into the beer? Has anyone tried this?

Cheers,

Ben

 

[Pumpy]

Pumpy,

If my beer seems as if it needs a little extra "oomph" from dry hopping I usually just dump it. No point in drinking bad beer with some dry hops to spruce it up.

Try mashing a little warmer and adding some more hops to the boil.

cheers

Darren

Darren ,I rarely dump beer . If I dont like it I have others who may be happy to drink it , I really mean that when a beer requires a bit of fine tuning when it it lacks a little body , Dry hopping can make a significant differnce to the body .
It wont salvage a bad beer .

Your right how critical Mashing temperature can be

Pumpy

 

[Pumpy]

Pumpy, I dry hopped my peat smoked belgium dry stout with some cascade flowers (un-socked) in the keg with a similar problem, Smashin.

... what?

Adamt ,

Smashin is allowed to be creative with his beer recipes

Pumpy

 

[crundle]

Another way to add oomph Pumpy is to use a coffee plunger and put in your dry hops and add boiling water, and leave it for 5 minutes to get the aroma going. Plunge the plunger down to filter the solids and pour the contents into your cold, gassed up keg. You will need to give it a purge of CO2 after this, but the cold beer will cool down the near boiling hop tea instantly and trap lots of aroma and flavour in there, without affecting your pour.

cheers,

Crundle

 

[Ross]

Pumpy,

It will hop fragments blocking your beer out post. It's a pain in the butt if you get loose hop particles in your keg.
I'd suggest just using plugs or flowers in your hop bags or use a finer mesh bag.

Cheers Ross

 

[Fourstar]

I'd suggest just using plugs or flowers in your hop bags or use a finer mesh bag.
Cheers Ross

Another option for pellets Ross is to get a square of Swiss Voile, pop your hops in the middle and loosely tie it off for expansion. All you get out of it is the sweet sweet hoppy goodness!

 

[TidalPete]

Another option for pellets Ross is to get a square of Swiss Voile, pop your hops in the middle and loosely tie it off for expansion. All you get out of it is the sweet sweet hoppy goodness!

Just what i was going to post Fourstar except my Swiss voile hop bags are already made up & long enough to be tied in a knot. :icon_cheers:

TP

 

[Fourstar]

Just what i was going to post Fourstar except my Swiss voile hop bags are already made up & long enough to be tied in a knot. :icon_cheers:
TP

Unfortunatly i don't have the sewing skills/machine like yourself tidal!