New Idea for Dry Hopping

[Lars]

You gonna take the bag out at any point, or leave it in there till its empty?

I planned on leaving it until the keg was empty. The way this IPA tastes, it won't be too long! I've left other beers on the dry hops for quite a long time without any grassy-ness, so I'm not too concerned. But if it starts to taste grassy I may pull it out.

[Bugeater]

The grassyness seems to vary with the variety of hops and how well dried they are. I don't get the hop dust problem when I dry hop. I use knee high nylon stockings. They are much finer mesh than the muslin hop bags. I hang them in the keg with regular unwaxed dental floss and the keg seals just fine over the floss.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company

[Thirsty Boy]

I used a polyester Voile bag. I think I only got hop "dust" through because I was using pellets and things got pretty shaken around. The nylon stocking would solve the problem and so would treating your keg witha bit more respect than me

Thanks for the hint about the grassyness Wayne. I did have some whole flower hops in there as well.... home grown ones that might not have been as well dried as they should.

If I do it again (probably wont, I'm not that big a hop head) I will use the stocking.

Thirsty