Hop bag for pellets?

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Up until now I've always used hop leaf/flower rather than pellets. Hop use is mostly during the boil but have also used to make a hop tea added during priming.
So I'm considering a dry hop which I’ve only tried once before with not a great outcome. I know hop leaf hold a lot of wort so thinking of trying pellet as I think wort absorption might be less :confused.:
I don’t want to open the FV to add the hops so am considering putting the pellets in a hop bag that will be “stuck” to the underside of the lid using magnets, that at the appropriate time can be released to let the pellets drop into the beer.
The question is, is there a downside to putting pellets in a hop bag?
 
When I used a fine mesh keg hopper I found that the wort didn’t penetrate very well. The outer hops got wet and blocked the mesh and the inner ones were still pretty dry.
 
If you use a magnet to hold bag won't that mean having metal in your hop bag?
which will be in contact with wort.
 
If you use a magnet to hold bag won't that mean having metal in your hop bag?
which will be in contact with wort.
PTFE coated....
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I used one Sainsbury’s veg bag tied with fine fishing line the lines trapped by the rubber bung and teaspoons in the bag to weigh them down.
Each day I would gently raise and lower the bag to get wort flowing through.
However when finished I was amazed how much the pellets had swelled and how dense the mass was - so much so that I doubt the wort would have flowed through. I would not do that again.
If you do it I would certainly recommend using 2 or 3 bags to maximise contact.
 
I used one Sainsbury’s veg bag tied with fine fishing line the lines trapped by the rubber bung and teaspoons in the bag to weigh them down.
Each day I would gently raise and lower the bag to get wort flowing through.
However when finished I was amazed how much the pellets had swelled and how dense the mass was - so much so that I doubt the wort would have flowed through. I would not do that again.
If you do it I would certainly recommend using 2 or 3 bags to maximise contact.
How much hops are you using. That's not my experience with on average 100g dry hop
 
I used one Sainsbury’s veg bag tied with fine fishing line the lines trapped by the rubber bung and teaspoons in the bag to weigh them down.
Each day I would gently raise and lower the bag to get wort flowing through.
However when finished I was amazed how much the pellets had swelled and how dense the mass was - so much so that I doubt the wort would have flowed through. I would not do that again.
If you do it I would certainly recommend using 2 or 3 bags to maximise contact.
Thanks for that info. I am looking at a huge amount of hop pellets so was considering seeing if I could leave the bag open but with the opening to the top so the bag holds them against the underside of the FV lid then when I release the bag they can spill out.
 

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