Quick Double Dry Hopping Question

[conorm]

I've a recipe for a NEIPA that has hop additions at O days and then again at day 7. No duration specified but it's a 14day fermentation period. Can I assume the hops at day 0 stay in the fermenter all the way through to day 14 at which point both come out of the fermenter?

(for those curious it's the Apocalyptic Thunder Juice recipe on Brewfather.)

 

[Rwilts]

Normally I would say that two weeks is too long in fermenter based on what I have read. Which may all be rubbish!

Ok looking at the recipe it mentions primary and secondary, so they are assuming you will be taking the beer off the first dry hop after 4 days.

If I was adjusting for a single stage germent I would throw both in at day 7.

 

[conorm]

Ok, that's what I thought. I've just put the wort in to the fermenter with the first bag of hops. I'll pull them out after 5 days then add the other bag for another 5-7.

 

[JockyBrewer]

It does need to be at 14 days.

Once dry hop will be at the start of fermentation, allowing for the yeast to do some biotransformation on the hop compounds.

The second dry hop will be when fermentation is finished. That could be at 14 days, but it might be significantly sooner depending upon your yeast health.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I've a recipe for a NEIPA that has hop additions at O days and then again at day 7. No duration specified but it's a 14day fermentation period. Can I assume the hops at day 0 stay in the fermenter all the way through to day 14 at which point both come out of the fermenter?

Dry hops only need to be in wort for a day or two to extract the good stuff, after that you're just adding grassiness with no real increase in "hop" flavour.

TBH, that sounds a rather old-fashioned recipe, the trend these days is away from early dry hopping, either dry hop late in fermentation or not at all, but cool crash to drop out the yeast and then dry hop for 24-48h after that.

 

[The Baron]

I never dry hop for more than 3 days and only after day 3/4 just as fermentation has slowed down

 

[conorm]

Right, the first bag of dry hops coming out now, and I'll not put the second in until after fermentation has stopped.

 

[The Baron]

I never dry hop late or after fermentation as too much risk of hop creep. If there is enough yeast in the beer to secondary ferment in the bottle/cask there is enough to start re-fermentation/hop creep