Dry-Hopping the Dogfish Head IPA

[MegaMrider]

where did you get the Dog Fish Head kit from?

[negzero7]

Hey just wanted to thank you for the awesome videos! Very informative, your video work is so clear, and you family seems awesome! Keep these brewing videos coming man, you are the shit!

[PTBYOOJ]

I never have understood how the dry hopping hops don't contaminate the beer during secondary fermentation.

Are they sanitized somehow before packaging? If so, are all packaged hops treated?

[anarchotron]

@PTBYOOJ I'm not sure how sanitary they are but I have certainly wondered that myself. However I do know that hops are inherently anti-bacterial; they are actually a preservative, and their introduction to beer is one of the reasons that beer has the shelf life that it does. In other words, the hops are their own sanitizer :)

[anarchotron]

@PTBYOOJ Also, I suppose that once you get the alcohol up to 8% or so, and most of the fermentable sugars have been exhausted, the environment is not particularly conducive to infection, at least compared to the beginning of the ferment.

[ibringthereals]

That looks a little tedious. Can't you just boil the hose and works and rinse with one step stuff to make it clean enough?

[anarchotron]

@ibringthereals not sure which part you are suggesting would be streamlined... one way or another you do need to fill up the siphon with sanitizer so you can just immerse it in the beer and let gravity do the rest. I start the siphon with my mouth and then sanitize the slobbered-on bit before using it in the beer.

[skbhopps]

we dry hopped our dog fish head ipa and it came out wonderfully!!! Beifall !!

[Sspacemonkey100]

Lookin good. How much was the doghead and where did you find it? 

[crlova2]

How did you filter out the hops from the seconday when you were ready to keg/bottle?

[anarchotron]

@crlova2 Just by racking it (siphoning it) off the hops, which mostly sunk to the bottom. I have a plate filter system nowadays, which makes the beer really crystal clear, but it's just for looks -- beer still tastes great if its cloudy.

[yuichituba]

Cool, this was helpful to watch. I'm making an IPA now, my 2nd brew, and always wondered how people transfer their beers. Even to see if people rinse the sanitizer off before using it. Seems like you don't have to, huh?

I'll post a video of me transferring the beer soon.

[rsh26377]

@yuichituba it depends on the type of sanitizer you use. if you use the sanitizer called one step then you do not have to

[anarchotron]

@rsh26377 I've been using iodophor for a long time and I really like it. You don't have to rinse it either.

[m015094]

What does your house smell like with all this fermenting happening?

[anarchotron]

@m015094 wonderful... I love it.

[jldrdotcom]

What is your recipe for the Dogfish Head IPA? Is it the 60, 90 or 120? I have a batch of IPA in the Primary now and I'm transferring to the secondary today.

[MrRofeliak]

I always love it when people skip over how they start their syphons... J/k. I find it really helpful to show that step. The beer looks great.

[Obiwannabe]

nice zappa shirt

[rubikbrewer]

I thought it was strange to see you shove the siphon hose into the secondary so haphazardly. The beer at this stage is very susceptible to oxidation and should be transferred with minimal aeration. To be sure, prior to filling my secondary, I always fully purge the air out with a good blast of CO2 gas, that way any residual turbulence will not incorporate oxygen into the beer. Also this blanket of CO2 will protect the beer as the secondary is filling, since it is heavier than air and sinks.

[anarchotron]

Yeah I was commenting on how I was trying to be as gentle as possible... the idea with purging the secondary with co2 is a great one. I will definitely do that from now on.

[gokorn1]

that little bit shouldn't make a differance