aussiewasp Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 I am looking at making a NEIPA Hazy IPA from Kegland. RECIPE: https://www.kegland.com.au/media/pdf/extract recipes/Extract - Jungle Juice NEIPA Instructions.pdf It involves dry hopping, something I am not familiar with. Below is the relevant step. It says to sprinkle the hops into the fermentor. So what happens when you come to bottle? I have dropped a teabag of dry hops in before, but the sprinkling? When the bubbling of the airlock stops (usually about a week after adding yeast), it’s time to dry hop your beer for maximum hop flavor and aroma. Take your 150g total of leftover hop pellets out of the freezer and sprinkle them evenly and gently into your fermenting beer. Make sure you only open the fermenter wide enough and long enough to do this quickly – bacteria are the enemy here and you don’t want the outside air and all its bacteria-filled dust getting into your batch of beer. After letting the dry hop pellets soak in your beer for 4-5 days, it’s time to bottle/keg. Leave them too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terminal2k Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 I use a hop sock 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Jones Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, jpd1009 said: I am looking at making a NEIPA Hazy IPA from Kegland. RECIPE: https://www.kegland.com.au/media/pdf/extract recipes/Extract - Jungle Juice NEIPA Instructions.pdf It involves dry hopping, something I am not familiar with. Below is the relevant step. It says to sprinkle the hops into the fermentor. So what happens when you come to bottle? I have dropped a teabag of dry hops in before, but the sprinkling? When the bubbling of the airlock stops (usually about a week after adding yeast), it’s time to dry hop your beer for maximum hop flavobr and aroma. Take your 150g total of leftover hop pellets out of the freezer and sprinkle them evenly and gently into your fermenting beer. Make sure you only open the fermenter wide enough and long enough to do this quickly – bacteria are the enemy here and you don’t want the outside air and all its bacteria-filled dust getting into your batch of beer. After letting the dry hop pellets soak in your beer for 4-5 days, it’s time to bottle/keg. Leave them too I use a Hop Bomb Tried the sprinkle method once, never again, kept blocking the filling wand. Edited December 8, 2022 by Pickles Jones 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickers Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 7 hours ago, terminal2k said: I use a hop sock same. or if i can't be bothered boiling mine for a few mins to sterilise i'll use a chux out of the packet. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stquinto Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Stickers said: same. or if i can't be bothered boiling mine for a few mins to sterilise i'll use a chux out of the packet. Me too. Or a hop tea made in a coffee plunger, but that's not dry hopping 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classic Brewing Co Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 3 hours ago, Pickles Jones said: I use a Hop Bomb Tried the sprinkle method once, never again, kept blocking the filling wand. I agree about the blocking, but I have a few of those & they all stuffed up & what I do now is sanitise a needle & cotton to close the gate as they are cheaply made & don't last that long. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus O'Sean Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 9 hours ago, jpd1009 said: I am looking at making a NEIPA Hazy IPA from Kegland. RECIPE: https://www.kegland.com.au/media/pdf/extract recipes/Extract - Jungle Juice NEIPA Instructions.pdf It involves dry hopping, something I am not familiar with. Below is the relevant step. It says to sprinkle the hops into the fermentor. So what happens when you come to bottle? I have dropped a teabag of dry hops in before, but the sprinkling? When the bubbling of the airlock stops (usually about a week after adding yeast), it’s time to dry hop your beer for maximum hop flavor and aroma. Take your 150g total of leftover hop pellets out of the freezer and sprinkle them evenly and gently into your fermenting beer. Make sure you only open the fermenter wide enough and long enough to do this quickly – bacteria are the enemy here and you don’t want the outside air and all its bacteria-filled dust getting into your batch of beer. After letting the dry hop pellets soak in your beer for 4-5 days, it’s time to bottle/keg. Leave them too Have a quick read of the post here for how I dry hop. Plenty of other options too. For 150g of hops I would use one of the giant 60cm x 60cm Chux cloths. It is good to have enough room for the hops to expand and float around inside. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozdevil Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 21 hours ago, jpd1009 said: When the bubbling of the airlock stops (usually about a week after adding yeast), it’s time to dry hop your beer for maximum hop flavor and aroma. Take your 150g total of leftover hop pellets out of the freezer and sprinkle them evenly and gently into your fermenting beer. Make sure you only open the fermenter wide enough and long enough to do this quickly – bacteria are the enemy here and you don’t want the outside air and all its bacteria-filled dust getting into your batch of beer. After letting the dry hop pellets soak in your beer for 4-5 days, it’s time to bottle/keg. Leave them too This something i would be very wary of being a Neipa that you are going to be fermenting. The warning they are telling you when they mention bacteria filled is oxygen. Neipas are one of the hardest of beers to make due to oxygenation and someways you cant avoid it, and many people dont bottle Neipa's due to oxygenation and mainly keg them. i am not saying dont bottle them. in my opinion the best way to dry hop a neipa with out trying to introduce oxygen into the fermenter is to use magnets and a hopsock the hops will go into hops ock with a magnet at the start of ferment and another magnet that you sit on the outside of fermenter and align the 2 magnets so they hold the hopsock above the wort when dry hopping day comes along detach the outside magnet and allow the hopsock drop in the wort Just make sure the magnet thats in the hopsock has been sanitized when you start fermentation by using this method you will avoid any oxygen entering the fermenter 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 34 minutes ago, ozdevil said: This something i would be very wary of being a Neipa that you are going to be fermenting. The warning they are telling you when they mention bacteria filled is oxygen. Neipas are one of the hardest of beers to make due to oxygenation and someways you cant avoid it, and many people dont bottle Neipa's due to oxygenation and mainly keg them. i am not saying dont bottle them. in my opinion the best way to dry hop a neipa with out trying to introduce oxygen into the fermenter is to use magnets and a hopsock the hops will go into hops ock with a magnet at the start of ferment and another magnet that you sit on the outside of fermenter and align the 2 magnets so they hold the hopsock above the wort when dry hopping day comes along detach the outside magnet and allow the hopsock drop in the wort Just make sure the magnet thats in the hopsock has been sanitized when you start fermentation by using this method you will avoid any oxygen entering the fermenter That's a good method for a dry hop with out lifting the lid. 150g Dry hop is going to need a strong magnet! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiewasp Posted December 9, 2022 Author Share Posted December 9, 2022 Thanks for all the comments, I have used all the methods you have mentioned, except for the magnet. Great idea! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozdevil Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 1 hour ago, jpd1009 said: Thanks for all the comments, I have used all the methods you have mentioned, except for the magnet. Great idea! Mate Neipas are tempremental beer as they are very prone to oxidation. I usually pressure ferment and closed transfer and closed dry hop when making a neipa due to oxygen. You can't pressure ferment in a coopers fermenter. I also urge on drinking them quicker if they show signs of oxidation as your not going to be able to avoid it if bottling.. Anyway good luck with it 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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