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I've started dry-hopping a lot of my beers lately, but I find that I get a lot of particulate matter in the beer after racking it from the fermenter into the keg. Even after I let it settle for a couple of weeks in the fridge, I can still see hop particles in every pint. Any suggestions on how to filter this out when racking into the keg?

Nylon bag with hops and marbles in it.

I just dump the hop pellets in without bags. I then crash it to below 40F for a day or 2 before transfering off. After it has carbonated for 3 days or so, it is ready to drink. The first couple of pints have some hop particles, but then it usually pours clear. You could always use gelatin or isinglass to help it settle out. I believe crash cooling before transferring will help you solve your problem. I also use a surescreen on my racking cane to filter our some of the particulate while I am transferring.

I put a Nylon super fine Mesh bag (I boil the bag first to sanitize) on the end of my syphon tube (out side). This seems to work really well for me, just be sure to purge your keg with Co2 first.

The obvious negative to this is the possiblity of oxygen pick up, but I enter comps all the time and have never gotten any comments about oxydation in my beers. This is a really simple way to keep a whole bunch of hop matter out of your kegged beer.

I guess another option would be to cut your dip tube short in your keg so it is a good bit above the hop matter.

Im with Luke. I zip tie a mesh bag up a couple inches on the dip tube. I don't worry about boiling the bag though. All of the beers I dry hop in the keg don't last long enough at cold temps to matter. If I was to counter fill and enter in competitions I would think differently.

+1 to the cold crash method for before kegging. Cold crashing for 48 hrs or so, really helps to drop out hop and yeast particulates and enables you to keg a clearer beer which has you pouring clear beer sooner.