Dry Hopping

[phynes1]

All good tips above.

Have a look at this link as well, he gives some good tips around minimising O2 contact.

http://www.bertusbrewery.com/2015/01/enjoy-by-122514-and-some-dry-hopping.html

[BigDanny84]

Interesting read Phynes1, thanks.

[Jonnycheech]

I used to dry hop with cones in a bag but I began to get infections, albeit down to not boiling long enough as previously mentioned, so I moved to pellets.

I prefer the ease of pellets these days. Personally I just bung them in to the fermentor loose, but I can cold crash my beers, so clarity is not really an issue. You will also loose some beer this way at transfer compared to bagging the hops but I just make an extra litre or two to compensate. I definitely wouldn't go over 5 days with pellets, I have gone as far as 10 days which was waaaay too much and the beer tasted like I chewing on a shrub. The grassy/vegetal flavours will die back but it can take a good few weeks. Unless you like that sort of thing!