Hops drop off

[Acott]

Hey lads, just a quick question.

I made the Apollo IPA kit from the Home Brewing Company. OG was 1.064 (expected was 1.061), day 12 and its down to 1.010 (expected was 1.012).

As per instructions I added the hops at day 7, but they haven't dropped off like I expected, the majority is sitting at the top and some bits are falling slowly, making it very murky with chunks of this and that floating about.

I had planned on bottling this weekend but now I'm unsure. I'm thinking I should rack to another vessel and give it another week for the other bits and pieces to fall out and for it to clear up a bit, am I right, or should I bottle anyway?

[Qs]

Don't wait a whole week.  This happened me recently and I waited it out and it ended up really grassy. Have you tried cold crashing?

[dcalnan]

Are they leaf, because theyll float at the top. The nylon mesh bags are brilliant for dry Hopping ,  keeps all of them together and makes siphoning off easier

[Acott]

Don't wait a whole week.  This happened me recently and I waited it out and it ended up really grassy. Have you tried cold crashing?

I was thinking of racking them off the hops altogether, unfortunately I have no means of cold crashing

Are they leaf, because theyll float at the top. The nylon mesh bags are brilliant for dry Hopping ,  keeps all of them together and makes siphoning off easier

They are leaf but they never came with a hop bag, I just whacked them in! Now that I think of it, they were supposed to come with a hop bag

[Qs]

Oh they're leaf, I was thinking pellets. Just rack from underneath them then.

[krockett]

I always use the nylon bag. As dcalnan says it works great. A nylon stocking will do the same job if you're stuck (boil it first).

[Acott]

I'll rack it today should do the trick, cheers lads