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Dry hopping with pellets leads to crud at top
Hi, I just attempted my first dry hopping. I have a barley wine in a secondary (glass carboy). I dropped in 3 oz of hop pellets and ignored my secondary for a week. Then after that week, I glanced at it and noticed that there is an inch layer of crud at the top of the beer. Hmm. I didn't expect that. Did the hop pellets just expand at the surface and stay there? Is that typical? I would have thought that they'd fall to the bottom. What do I do when I go to bottle? I've got crud on the bottom and top. Thanks for the help.
-Newbie
It's normal. Give the carboy a gentle swirl and they'll start to drop out of suspension. Don't worry if they don't all fall; just racking from below the hop sludge and you'll be fine.
I use an auto syphon to do my racking. One thing I found that helps to keep hop sluge in the carboy and out of my bottling bucket is to use one of those nylon hop bags as a hop filter. I stick my auto syphon into one of those bags before starting the syphon & the bag acts like a filter leaving most of the hops behind.
FPB is right, just give it a little swirl every couple of days and they will settle to the bottom. Also if you cold crash it will all sink to the bottom.
Thanks everyone. I'll give your suggestions a try.
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