I recently started dry hopping with whole hop leaves and I have been putting glass marbles in to weigh down the bags. But, each time the bag wind up floating like an iceberg, with a portion above the beer line. How much weigh in marbles do I need to have a one ounce of hop leaves sink below the surface? Any tips on any other ways to submerge whole hop leaves?
I now dry hop in keg and have had success at tying the hop bag about halfway down the dip tube. In the fermentor I have used spoons, glasses and marbles and yeah it takes a lot of weight. The exact weight I am not sure. Another that works well is stainless washers. I would like to hear other suggestions as well.
Similar to Seany, I add most of the dry hop to the keg. Process If doing a large dry-hop addition: I remove hops from the mylar pouch(es) and put it in a gallon plastic "baggie". fluff hops in the plastic bag put hops in to a hop sac put heavy stainless steel fitting (usually a coupler) in hop sac put hop sac back in baggie suck air out of plastic baggie with straw Fill baggie with CO2 then purge repeat step 6 and 7 once then goto 9 suspend hop bag in keg re-purge keg using CO2 It seems complicated, but it's not really - takes a couple minutes
