Late hopping

[Midlife]

Just wanted to check about late hopping, Im a bit paranoid about creating an infection tampering with the brew from FV to corny keg. I was going to do 500ml of hop tea in a Cafetiere and add it in when doing the transfer.

Apart from sterilising the Cafetiere and letting it cool to ambient, how do you treat the hops? may seem an odd question but do you just drop hops into the Cafetiere and then add the boiled water? does that sterilise the whole process? this probably seems a daft geek question but just dropping hops in by hand or dry hopping i.e. drop then into the FV seems risky if they haven't hit some hot enough water to sterilise.

Also in the GW recipe it says dry hop with a few cones of styrian goldings... I think Im just finding myself not brave enough to grab a few cones in my had and drop them in.

Cheers

Doug

[Rookie]

Once the wort has finished fermenting the alcohol in it prevents any infection that might happen with dry hopping. I always just toss in dry hops and have never had a problem.

[Rick_UK]

Hops are a natural antibacterial and preservative so unlikely anything nasty will survive in hop tea. I usually pour boiling water into the cafetiere leave it to reach 80ish add hops then leave for 20 mins to steep. Never had a problem this way.

Rick

[alexlark]

My dry hop technique is to drop them in after week 2 and syphon through a very fine micron bag after week 3. Gets the most out of the hops when they are used loose.

[Rookie]

My dry hop technique is to drop them in after week 2 and syphon through a very fine micron bag after week 3. Gets the most out of the hops when they are used loose.

That works with all kinds of things that can be added to beer.

[guypettigrew]

My technique is to chuck them in the King Keg after racking. Super simple!

Guy