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Dry-Hopping the Dogfish Head IPA

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Uploaded by on Feb 14, 2008

In this video, 1 week after the brewing video, I transfer the fermented IPA into the secondary fermentation carboy and add the hops for dry-hopping.

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  • 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?

  • @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 :)

  • @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.

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

  • @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.

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

  • @m015094 wonderful... I love it.

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  • where did you get the Dog Fish Head kit from?

  • 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!

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

  • @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.

  • 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?

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