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[consumptionjunction]

I have an all late-addition hopped brownish ale (OG 1.060) which has been bubbling away in the primary for about two weeks. This weekend I was planning on transferring to secondary and dry-hopping for about a week.I was just wondering what anyone does if they are dry-hopping (without a mesh bag) and bottling. Will I run into any problems with hop matter getting into the bottles if I take it from secondary into the bottling bucket? Should I transfer to a tertiary carboy for a few days before bottling? Maybe cold-crashing between transfers?If I am making all these transfers, will my yeast be in too small of a population to naturally carbonate my bottles?What would be a good order of operations to get a good, clean dry-hop, without any particulates getting into the bottles, while still being able to naturally carbonate the bottles?

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

I have an all late-addition hopped brownish ale (OG 1.060) which has been bubbling away in the primary for about two weeks. This weekend I was planning on transferring to secondary and dry-hopping for about a week.I was just wondering what anyone does if they are dry-hopping (without a mesh bag) and bottling. Will I run into any problems with hop matter getting into the bottles if I take it from secondary into the bottling bucket? Should I transfer to a tertiary carboy for a few days before bottling? Maybe cold-crashing between transfers?If I am making all these transfers, will my yeast be in too small of a population to naturally carbonate my bottles?What would be a good order of operations to get a good, clean dry-hop, without any particulates getting into the bottles, while still being able to naturally carbonate the bottles?

If you are worried about the hop bits making it into the bottles why aren't you using the aforementioned mesh bag?

[consumptionjunction]

I don't have one. Will I be able to get two ounces of hops in a bag out through the carboy after they have absorbed all that liquid?I'm more concerned with carbonating the bottles too... what are some upper-level extremes people have experienced where they thought it wouldn't carbonate, but did?

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

I don't have one. Will I be able to get two ounces of hops in a bag out through the carboy after they have absorbed all that liquid?I'm more concerned with carbonating the bottles too... what are some upper-level extremes people have experienced where they thought it wouldn't carbonate, but did?

You could use a paint strainer bag I think (those are pretty cheap) and I'd suspect that after you transfer the beer out of the carboy you'd be able to pull them out. As you pulled I'd expect the liquid they had absorbed to kind of naturally get squeezed out. I can't speak to bottle carbonating after a secondary since I usually only primary when I'm going to bottle. Maybe you could try that out - dry hop in primary and just do an extended primary.

[DaBearSox]

there will be enough yeast in suspension to carbonate..plenty of us use gelatin to drop the yeast out in a 2ndary but still bottle condition.

[consumptionjunction]

Thanks for the advice. I just put 2 ounces (1 oz amarillo and 1 oz summit) into the primary and will let it sit for another week before I rack into secondary for about another week.