dry hopping a great eastern

[pongobilly]

can anyone reccomend hops to put in my great eastern, and give me a proceedure to do it

cheers

[andyp]

Not sure I'm in a position to recommend but what I did to my Great Eastern on Sunday was to add some East Kent Goldings.

In reality just using up what I had left so 15gms split equally between 10 mins boil in a few litres of dilute wort then cooled to around 80 degrees before adding the rest for about 20 mins then stained and added to the FV.

Will be a good 6 weeks before i could recommend but it's fairly standard procedure and no matter how good the kit and good your technique there's always going to be some hoppy loss in a kit in comparison to what's served in a good pub. So this hopefully will replace somewhat that which has been lost in the kit production process,

All the above is very approximate tho'

[oxford brewer]

Use a small mesh bag with a drawstring round the top and a few marbles,boil these together for 5 mins to sterilise,then take 20g of Bramling Cross hops place them in the bag with the marbles and then place them carefully into the keg.
The weight of the marbles will help the hops to sink beneath the fluid level.
You can remove them after 5 days or so but I find its ok to leave them in the keg until its empty(which isnt that long ).
You can use a varierty of hops and weights for dry hopping it depends on your liking.