To dry hop or not?

[JebKerman]

I'm about to make this today, and am considering throwing a 7 day dry hop of 14g Cascade and 14g Citra for a bit more of a hoppy punch

What do you think?

2.14kg Pale Malt
430g Munich
310g Flaked Wheat
21g Perle (60 min)
3.2g Irish Moss (15 min)
10g Cascade (10 mins)
20g Cascade (Flameout)
Using US-05

So for a 3 gallon batch, would you guys dry hop or not?

Beersmith reckons 34 IBU, 10.5 EBC and 5.7%ABV for the original recipe.

 

[dad_of_jon]

Yes i'd dry hop, I tend to do 100-250g dry hop i'd probably not notice a 28g dh but then:

a) I'm a hop head
b) My taste buds / sense of smell are shot so I need an extra boost top anything i eat/drink.

 

[pvt_ak]

Dry hop for sure if you like a hop kick - did it on my last batch and wow !


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[JebKerman]

Cool. That settles it. An extra Cascade and Citra charge will be added

 

[GerritT]

I guess it's personal but I'm sort of meh about all the citrusy hops. But I'd dryhop too, just different flavours. Do you use pellets or leaf?

 

[JebKerman]

I use pellets but have a hop spider that I bought off eBay which works brilliantly for dry hopping

 

[GerritT]

I use pellets but have a hop spider that I bought off eBay which works brilliantly for dry hopping

Pellets are great for dryhopping, the loss of beer with leafs is huge! But leafs work better when filtering in earlier stages :)

 

[krispn]

Doing some dry hopping in a few days on my brew. Unsure if I should do two additions as in day 3 or four and another at day 7.
I’m doing a big additions so probably adding up to 150g-200g for my 5gal batch. It’s a lot but I figure this is my first proper 5gal batch and I want it to be loaded with tropical fruity flavour!

 

[JebKerman]

Doing some dry hopping in a few days on my brew. Unsure if I should do two additions as in day 3 or four and another at day 7.
I’m doing a big additions so probably adding up to 150g-200g for my 5gal batch. It’s a lot but I figure this is my first proper 5gal batch and I want it to be loaded with tropical fruity flavour!

That’s a hell of a lot of hops

 

[LarryF]

A late hop tea is an alternative to dry hopping, steep the hops in a mesh bag in just boiled water for 40 mins, I don't weigh the bag down, just treat it like a giant tea bag. Cover it and when cooled add to the FV, I've enjoyed all the beers where I've swapped a dry hop for a late hop tea.

 

[krispn]

Yup it’s a shed load! Some recipes I’ve been looking at are hopping at up to 24g/L, more so for NEIPA styles. I made a wheat beer recently that had very few hops as the style didn’t require them... so not all my brews are that heavy handed. This is a deliberate big juicy pale ale and I’m trying to create that juice bomb. Might keep it about the 150g range.

 

[krispn]

Done my dry hop addition this evening - 16g of Citra and 40g El Dorado. I’ll do another ‘hop drop’ in a few days but maybe not as much as previously discussed. The brew fridge smells amazing. Is it wrong to keep sniffing my fridge?

I’ve got Galaxy and Mosaic left in the freezer. I think I’ll keep the Mosaic for a SMaSH (maybe with a little bit of oats/wheat) and recreate the hop additions similar to my current brew. Don’t want to muddle things up with too many varieties so maybe 50g of Galaxy in three/four days time.

 

[cheshirehomebrew]

I dry hop every time, but next time I do a beer I might split batch it and only dry hop half to see if I can tell the difference