Cryo Hops for Dry Hopping

[dale cannon]

Anyone have experience with this? I’ve avoided dry hopping in the past due to too many batches with an overly vegetal flavour. Seems these will reduce that risk.

[matt7215]

Anyone have experience with this? I’ve avoided dry hopping in the past due to too many batches with an overly vegetal flavour. Seems these will reduce that risk.

you can def dry hop with cryo

how long are you leaving your beer on the hops when dry hopping?

[Masterplan]

I've had the same experience but with non-cryo hops. I put it down to incomplete fermentation, as the beer improved as is bottle conditioned for another week.

[dale cannon]

Anyone have experience with this? I’ve avoided dry hopping in the past due to too many batches with an overly vegetal flavour. Seems these will reduce that risk.

you can def dry hop with cryo

how long are you leaving your beer on the hops when dry hopping?

Thanks Matt, I’ll give them a try. Would 1oz. in a corny keg for 4 days be a good start?
I haven’t brewed in a decade or so, but I recall trying for shorter and shorter durations with similar results (grassy, vegetal flavour that persisted). It could have been hop freshness, poor technique leading to oxidation, or otherwise. I’m now fermenting in a temp controlled unitank and doing pressurized transfers etc so hopefully I see better results.

[matt7215]

Anyone have experience with this? I’ve avoided dry hopping in the past due to too many batches with an overly vegetal flavour. Seems these will reduce that risk.

you can def dry hop with cryo

how long are you leaving your beer on the hops when dry hopping?

Thanks Matt, I’ll give them a try. Would 1oz. in a corny keg for 4 days be a good start?
I haven’t brewed in a decade or so, but I recall trying for shorter and shorter durations with similar results (grassy, vegetal flavour that persisted). It could have been hop freshness, poor technique leading to oxidation, or otherwise. I’m now fermenting in a temp controlled unitank and doing pressurized transfers etc so hopefully I see better results.

yeah that small amount of hops and quick contact time should lead to no vegetal flavours in your beer, also, if you are just using an ounce im assuming you are just gonna open a 1 oz pack from a commercial packed product so the hops should be in good shape. dry hopping with hops that have been opened and then sitting around awhile is a potential for what you were previously experiencing

[dale cannon]

That’s it yes, 1oz each of cryo simcoe, citra and centennial individual packs from yakima valley. Just need to decide which to use.

[matt7215]

That’s it yes, 1oz each of cryo simcoe, citra and centennial individual packs from yakima valley. Just need to decide which to use.

cant go wrong with citra or simcoe imo