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There was some discussion at last night's meeting about dry hopping in the keg and I mentioned a stainless mesh herb infuser in the lee valley catalogue that could possibly work well. This is what I'm referring to:

http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/page ... 4734,47832

know1 wrote:There was some discussion at last night's meeting about dry hopping in the keg and I mentioned a stainless mesh herb infuser in the lee valley catalogue that could possibly work well. This is what I'm referring to:

http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/page ... 4734,47832

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Nice.

I've dry hopped in the keg and i've noticed after a long period it will start to taste grassy.

I'd like to use one of these and remove it after 7 days or dry hopping in the keg.

That reminds me, I've got one of these around somewhere...think it will work?

Dry hop your eyeballs.

I don't keg, but don't some people use a mesh bag with a long piece of dental floss attached, so that they can remove the hops when needed?

Just don't buy the wintergreen-flavored floss!

berley wrote:I don't keg, but don't some people use a mesh bag with a long piece of dental floss attached, so that they can remove the hops when needed?

Just don't buy the wintergreen-flavored floss!

That's what I've done whenever I dry hopped in the keg. Last night some were saying they just threw the pellet hops directly in the keg and poured off the first little bit that was hop sludge.

If you're using whole hops, a gallon paint strainer bag tied off with dental floss/fishing line and jammed behind the dip tube seems to work just fine for me. I've left whole hops in the keg for a couple of months+ and have never run into grassy flavours.

ah dental floss. thats what im missing.

jeffsmith wrote:If you're using whole hops, a gallon paint strainer bag tied off with dental floss/fishing line and jammed behind the dip tube seems to work just fine for me. I've left whole hops in the keg for a couple of months+ and have never run into grassy flavours.

Same here.

DItto. There are "keg bags" that are long skinny mesh bags. I've filled it with leaf hops, and tossed it in. Maybe I was lucky, but no clogging issues during the whole time.