Alright everybody welcome back to another video today. We're gonna break down pretty much every single way There is to dry hop your beer on the home brew scale so that you can create awesome things like this double dry hop The pale ale Hey, it's your first time here. I just want to say welcome to you Typically on this channel. I'll do gray into glass videos But I also do lots of other shorter informative videos like this one Where I do equipment reviews and techniques as well as educational content So if you like that sort of thing, please go ahead hit that like button and subscribe to the channel for more content like this So the subject of today's video is dry hopping. It's a pretty common thing a lot of recipes Especially obviously hobby beers will take advantage of this technique to infuse extra aroma and unique flavor Carried through a six out of the beer now depending on what stage of the process you're actually dry hopping in and for how long and in what quantities I really determines quite a bit about the final beer and sometimes recipes even call for two or three separate dry hopping additions all throughout the process fermentation And that can cause some complications especially for home brewers who are working on relatively basic equipment I've been there before I have fermented in everything from a plastic bucket to a Spike cf5 conical fermenter and really no matter what fermentation setup you have a lot of these techniques will still apply to you dry hopping kind of presents its own unique challenges in terms of both a sanitation risk as well as a risk of Exposing the beer post fermentation to oxygen where it can actually have a bad effect on the beers overall flavor So more often than not we really want to focus on keeping oxygen out of the fermenter when you're dry hopping This is especially important when you have beers that are heavily dry hopped like hazy IPAs where you might have two or three dry Hopping additions throughout the course of fermentation if you're dry hopping very early in the process Especially during high-crowson. There's a lot less of a risk to oxidation as well as contamination Simply because fermentation is at its strongest at that point This means that the CO2 that is produced by fermentation has positive pressure is pushing Nasty's and oxygen out of the fermenter actively during this phase But it's after this phase where as the crow's and falls and the fermentation basically settles down That you're most vulnerable to things like oxidation or infection So there is a couple different methods of doing this the first method is really the simplest and the original method Which is just taking the lid off chuck in your hops in and put in the lid back on as fast as you can You will not risk oxidation in your fermenter if you do this during the first stage of fermentation where you have high However, if you do this after-crowson is fallen you will risk oxidation So it is often best practice to flush out your fermenter with CO2 and have CO2 in that head space to keep the oxygen out as you are adding your dry hops This is easier on some fermenters than it is on others But in most cases you can just hook up a line to your CO2 tank directly just turn your gas on and then feed that into the fermenter And you should be good to go method number two is dry hopping in the keg Dry hopping in the keg is a bit of a controversial one. I don't get into that in a minute Basically, what you're going to do to dry hop in the keg is just put a Bag of hops in the keg before you fill it with your beer now you can effectively do this right before I close transfer to minimize the amount of oxygen And in most cases you're probably not going to take the bag of hops out until the keg is kicked and therein lies the controversial part Which is as that beer sits on those hops for a longer period of time You're going to start to develop some kind of not-so-great flavors over time such as excessive amounts of grassiness and some hop burn Which can be unpleasant. I use this method really only once the first couple days in the keg the beer tasted absolutely phenomenally The dry hops had so much character that they added to the beer that it was it was just great However as time went on that started to get weird and basically the less pleasant more Grassy notes started to become more prominent and I just did not basically get rid of the beer Fast enough to mitigate those issues and basically you're only going to want to use this method if you're turning your beer over in like a week or two at tops If you're planning and letting that beer stay in the keg for longer than that or you just can't get rid of it You're probably going to have some issues With flavor infusions that you don't necessarily want however It can be a beneficial thing if you're posting a party and you're attending on getting rid of the beer fast Or if you just happen to be very very popular with your beer and plan on turning it around very fast Method number three is our first truly oxygen-free dry hopping method It is also a very useful method for double and triple dry hop to beers where you're adding multiple hop additions throughout the process And that is utilizing a magnet to drop a hop bag in at a later point in the process This method will work very well in any sort of thin Wald fermenter like a firm zilla of any kind or a bucket I would not use it on a stainless steel fermenter though Basically what you're going to do here is as soon as your picture yeast you're going to get your dry hopping charge ready You're going to put it into a dry hopping bag and you're going to put something stainless steel It's been sanitized inside of your dry hopping bag with your dry hops in it Usually one of these magnets on the outside of the fermenter You're going to want to hold that dry hopping bag in place up above the work So as fermentation begins CO2 will quickly flood that chamber and keep your hops fresh They will not go bad over the couple hours that you're waiting for fermentation to start And that way when you're ready to actually dry hop you never have to open your fermenter All you have to do is pull the external magnet off and the dry hops will drop into the beer And then they will stay there until you need to take them out These magnets are very cheap and very strong I will provide an Amazon link in the description box for them The next technique is specific to the firm zilla with the collection jar underneath it For various reasons I'm not a huge fan of the firm zilla design However many people do swear by it So this collection jar is very useful for dry hopping Especially oxygen-free If you happen to have this type of firm zilla in order to oxygen-free dry hop with it All you need to do is keep the butterfly valve at the bottom of the fermenter closed As you add your work into the fermenter and pitch your yeast Then on the day of dry hopping remove the collection jar underneath add in your dry hopping charge And reattach the collection jar make sure you have those two carbonation caps sealed on the end Then purge that small collection jar with CO2 and pressurize it to about five psi Higher than the rest of the fermenter is at At this point you can open up that butterfly valve and the pressure differential will cause the hops to be sucked up into the beer and into circulation This is an entirely oxygen-free method that I've used before if you like the firm zilla this might be the right thing for you The last dry hopping method I'm going to go over here is for anybody who has a stainless steel fermenter Especially one with trichlamp type of attachments and this is called a hop dropper now There's an actual hop dropper product out there But it's a lot more expensive than it needs to be and basically you can just build the whole thing yourself for a lot cheaper Which is what I did So the concept in this one is a little bit more complicated But it works out pretty well and it's repeatable the first thing you'll need to do is attach a butterfly valve to Whatever trichlamp port is on top of your fermenter You can have the butterfly valve open and place an airlock in it during regular fermentation And whenever you want to add your dry hops simply close the butterfly valve and take the airlock out Next you'll either attach a sight glass or some other trichlamp compatible metal pipe To the top of your butterfly valve Add your dry hops into your sight glass or metal pipe or whatever and then top of that add either a gas manifold or a trichlamp accessory That has both a pressure relief valve and a keg gas post at this point You can add pressure to the whole thing via the gas post and relieve it via the pressure relief valve to purge out any oxygen in there and replace it with CO2 I really would not recommend pressurizing a sight glass is more than a few psi at a time Because you don't want to explode in your face obviously because it's glass So be careful with that once you're confident that your dry hopping charge is free of oxygen Go ahead and pressurize it one last time and then pop open that butterfly valve and they should drop right into the beer If you have a one and a half inch setup like I do it might need a little coaxing But you can get them to fall into the beer without too much effort At that point you can go ahead and take off your hop dropper and put a regular airlock on there Or you can just pressurize it for mentor again if you're pressure fermenting I hope that was helpful. Hopefully you guys learned something Please let me know in the comment section down below what your favorite dry hopping method is what your preferred one is And especially if there's one that I didn't cover here that you know about please go put that in the comment section down below So that we can all see it and learn from it If you learned something and you enjoyed the video Please don't forget to hit that like button and subscribe for more content like this I'm doing my best to upload weekly right now on Friday mornings But if you don't want to wait around that long I do have an Instagram that is at the apartment brewer on Instagram as well as a patreon Which I'm going to link up here in the corner And that has a lot of additional video content as well In the description box down below I also have a list of all the other equipment that I use for brewing To include the glow hammer supply system if you happen to be in the market for any equipment Clicking through some of those links does help my channel out quite a bit Thanks for watching everybody and I will catch you guys in the next one. So until then cheers You