Hop Tea with pellets

[Drunkula]

whats the protocol for adding the hop tea late then mate? would i add hop tea and dry hops to the FV after about 5 days?

Depending on whether you'd cold crash or not I'd do a dry hop 3 days before bottling if you weren't or 7 to 5 days before if you were. Dry hopping does its stuff pretty much within a day or two. But a hop tea we're talking the day before bottling or putting it into the botting bucket at the same time as the priming sugar / keg before you force carb.

If you're a clarity mentalist then a hop tea with the coffee pot can add a few hop particle but they'll settle in the bottle. If you're really obsessed do the tea, gelatine, crash, bottle. After the coffee press the particles won't cause the crazy gushers that full bits of hops cause when they're in the bottle. Most drunken bottling day things you'll get away with but when I let big clumps of hops into bottles every one was a fountain of delight.

 

[terrym]

Try this as well
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/a-newbies-guide-to-dry-hopping-your-beer.61045/

 

[tropicalpalmtree]

i've purchased some nylon cloth bags for the dry hop stage! not too sure what cold crashing is as of yet, about to have a look through google and learn about it!

 

[tropicalpalmtree]

so cold crashing is a way to clear the beer before bottling by cooling it in the fridge? and settle all the yeast?

 

[terrym]

so cold crashing is a way to clear the beer before bottling by cooling it in the fridge? and settle all the yeast?

Yes. A fridge is not essential. But it helps. Otherwise the coldest place you have.