Graz
Landlord.
Potentially stupid question but here goes, I don't currently own a pressure thingy...
I usually dry hop my brews when fermentation is all but over, normally lob the hops in, leave 2-3 days, cold crash 1-2 days, keg. Now with a pressure fermenter at the point when I would do this I'm assuming that if I've done everything right the fermenter would be sitting around 10 psi and giving initial carbonation to my beer. If I vent it, take the lid off and chuck the hops in then the pressure has gone and likely won't really build up again as active fermentation is over. I could now obviously hook it up to my CO2 bottle to carry on carbonating but no idea if that's what everybody does. Also isn't the point of adding the hops to the flat but fermented beer is that the aroma doesn't get driven off by the CO2, does the pressure in the headspace alleviate this?
Having written off the idea of these fermenters when they first came out due to cost and it wouldn't fit in my brew fridge I see there are now several variants that don't have the collection bottle, are stubby so likely would fit in my fridge and are cheaper. I quite like the idea of being able to transfer into a Corny under pressure and not faffing around with siphons.
I usually dry hop my brews when fermentation is all but over, normally lob the hops in, leave 2-3 days, cold crash 1-2 days, keg. Now with a pressure fermenter at the point when I would do this I'm assuming that if I've done everything right the fermenter would be sitting around 10 psi and giving initial carbonation to my beer. If I vent it, take the lid off and chuck the hops in then the pressure has gone and likely won't really build up again as active fermentation is over. I could now obviously hook it up to my CO2 bottle to carry on carbonating but no idea if that's what everybody does. Also isn't the point of adding the hops to the flat but fermented beer is that the aroma doesn't get driven off by the CO2, does the pressure in the headspace alleviate this?
Having written off the idea of these fermenters when they first came out due to cost and it wouldn't fit in my brew fridge I see there are now several variants that don't have the collection bottle, are stubby so likely would fit in my fridge and are cheaper. I quite like the idea of being able to transfer into a Corny under pressure and not faffing around with siphons.
