so I'm brewing a double jack clone. The recipe calls for 4 separate dry hopping intervals, intervals being every 3-4 days. Any of you Brewers ever done this? I have not but am willing to give it a try if others think it is worth while.
I believe Pliny's recipe calls for multiple dh'ing sessions spaced over similar intervals as you described. That works well for Russian River, but my attempt did not change results from a single dh session.
Personally I wouldn’t. Unless you can pump Co2 into the headspace while doing it to try to avoid as much O2 pickup as possible you run the risk of really exposing the beer to too much o2 and while it might not be “oxidized” hop flavor/aroma gets crushed by even the minimal amount of O2 pickup. Firestone’s standard SOP for dry hopping is one dry hop addition 1-.5 plato from Terminal. Leave at 68 for two days after terminal. Remove as much yeast/hops as possible and add the second DH addition. Their yeast floccs so hard they don’t need to cool at all to get it to flocc. If you’re not using 1968 then I’d cool to 60 or so before adding 2nd round. Ideally purging headspace as much as possible after addition.
f This depends on when you are doing your dry hop addition, and this schedule relies on post fermentation. The newer way is to dry hop during active fermentation which is where the yeast is still looking for 02, and those pellets happen to have a lot of it. Re: beer geysers. It's kind of hard to get ingress when everything is being pushed out.
