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

[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!

Exactly what I used to use & was the inspiration for the original BIAB material.

Cheers Ross

 

[Fourstar]

Exactly what I used to use & was the inspiration for the original BIAB material.

Cheers Ross

Its fantastic stuff!

 

[Pumpy]

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

Thats a good idea Crundle will give that a go

Pumpy

 

[Pumpy]

Exactly what I used to use & was the inspiration for the original BIAB material.

Cheers Ross

Yep I use similar ,pop socks Pumpy

 

[mje1980]

Im with ross. Decarb the beer, and unscrew the out post. Have a look inside and you'll know for sure. My first dry hopping keg experience was great, until the 4th or 5th beer,when no beer came out. The post was full of fuggles!. Had to dump the beer, but learned a lesson haha.


I use the hop socks ( from ross i think ), and let them float. No problems since.

Good luck.

 

[Pumpy]

Thanks mje1980

But getting the posts stuck was nothing to do with the original question posted below

When I dry hop in my kegs in the pop socks, with ss washers and Amarillo hops, tied and suspended with' minty' dental floss, the beer gets a lot of body,and flavour , but becomes difficult to pour why is this ????

Pumpy :huh:

This is like Chinese Whispers .

Pumpy

Im with ross. Decarb the beer, and unscrew the out post. Have a look inside and you'll know for sure. My first dry hopping keg experience was great, until the 4th or 5th beer,when no beer came out. The post was full of fuggles!. Had to dump the beer, but learned a lesson haha.


I use the hop socks ( from ross i think ), and let them float. No problems since.

Good luck.

 

[crundle]

Pumpy, there was a graph doing the rounds on this forum fairly recently that showed the strength of extraction of aroma, flavour and bitterness from hops, that shows that around 5 minutes is the peak for aroma. I have been leaving my coffee plunger hops in for 5 minutes and the aroma lasts for the whole keg.

Here is the link for the graph, outside of the forum - Hop boil characteristics

cheers,

Crundle

 

[Pumpy]

Pumpy, there was a graph doing the rounds on this forum fairly recently that showed the strength of extraction of aroma, flavour and bitterness from hops, that shows that around 5 minutes is the peak for aroma. I have been leaving my coffee plunger hops in for 5 minutes and the aroma lasts for the whole keg.

Here is the link for the graph, outside of the forum - Hop boil characteristics

cheers,

Crundle

That sounds awesome Crundle

1) do you add it to the keg

2) or before fermenting ?

Pumpy

 

[henderjo]

Hey Pumpy,

If you think it's nucleation... could you pull your bag out, pour a beer, drop your bag in that (might need a schooner) and see what happens? If it foams up plenty - then you know, it's the sock! You might be able to try the same thing once you have cleaned out your sock? Might end up being the actual bag - not the hops? Never used a hop bag but it sounds a little like it might be the bag... interesting!

John.

edit - might need to make sure the bag is cold when you test it

 

[Pumpy]

Hey Pumpy,

If you think it's nucleation... could you pull your bag out, pour a beer, drop your bag in that (might need a schooner) and see what happens? If it foams up plenty - then you know, it's the sock! You might be able to try the same thing once you have cleaned out your sock? Might end up being the actual bag - not the hops? Never used a hop bag but it sounds a little like it might be the bag... interesting!

John.

edit - might need to make sure the bag is cold when you test it

Henderjo

Maybe i need a new sack to put my hops in :unsure:

perhaps I should go for a cotton Muslin sack to keep them in .

perhaps the muslin wont have a nuclear reaction with the CO2


Pumpy