dry hopping question

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Apr 29, 2008
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I brewed a batch of beer on Friday night and the recipe calls for dry hopping in the secondary.  I have 2 oz of hop pellets (hopunion).  Do I just dump them in the carboy and then transfer the beer?  Do I wrap them in some cheese cloth?  

If I just dump them in I figured it would be messy when it came time to bottle or keg.

thanks in advance.  

Aaron.

Recipe for Citra IPA

Recipe Type:  All Grain
Yeast:  Safale US-05
Batch Size (Gallons):  5
Original Gravity:  1.060
Final Gravity:  1.012
IBU:  57.2
Boiling Time (Minutes):  60
Color:  10.4 SRM
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp):  9 @ 68F
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp):  14 @ 65F
Tasting Notes:  Slight Bitterness with loads of [color= rgb(0, 153, 0)]Melon[/color]
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/Citrus Aroma.

Grains
11.25 lb Pale Ale Malt 
1.00 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine 
0.75 lb Caramunich Malt 
0.50 lb [color= rgb(0, 153, 0)]Honey[/color]
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 Malt

Hops  
0.75 oz Citra [14.00 %] 60
1.00 oz Citra [14.00 %] 10
1.00 oz Citra [14.00 %] 5
1.00 oz Citra [14.00 %] 1
2.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] Dry  I replaced this with Citra hops.  
1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet 10

1 Pkgs Safale American Ale (DCL Yeast #US-05) 

Single Infusion Mash: 154 for 60min

Added 2oz of whole leaf Simcoe into secondary for 14 days, then Kegged.  (Again, I replaced the Simcoe with Citra.

I also used the continuous Sparge method.  The OG was spot on and everything smelled and tasted great. I will know in a few weeks how it turned out.  It was cold and rainy out side last Friday night so I had to change my setup a little but everything worked out.  It seems to save alot of time if you can start heating your water while sparging.  


Aaron.
 
I normally throw them right into the secondary loose.  The pellets will dissolve and over time they will settle to the bottom.

They don't pose a problem especially if you are careful about not stirring things up when you siphon out to your bottling bucket/keg.

HTH-
 
Thanks guys.. I will just drop them in.  I am excited about this recipe.  I had a Laughing Dog Citra IPA last fall and it was awesome.  I hope to replicate that flavor.

Aaron.
 
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