Dry Hopping Your Homebrewed Beer

Add Freshness to your Homebrew; Dry Hop!

Hop pellets are easy to use, and can provide a good quality aroma,
bitterness, and flavor to your beer. However, I’ve noticed every time
that I dry hop a beer, it just tastes so fresh. It gives that extra zest
of flavor and aroma, and your tongue just swells with bitterness.

Dry hopping is pretty simple. Check your local homebrew store (LHBS), and see
what fresh hops they have sealed in their endless vault of hops. A lot
of the time, LHBS have a wide variety of hop leaves that can be placed
in your secondary fermentation vessel, preferably a glass carboy. Rack
your beer into secondary fermentation, and simply put the hop leaves
into the fermentation vessel. Leave it for 10-14 days, and you’ll notice
a huge difference in how your beer smells and tastes once you rack into
your bottling bucket and keg.

Be sure that your hop selection matches the beer style. Experiment
and try new hops out, but don’t go over the edge and ruin the desired
outcome of your homebrew. Cheers!!