jimlin wrote:I thought I heard someone on the BN podcasts (Tasty?) discuss dry hopping with a sack, but placing something with some weight, like a stainless steel nut or bolt, in it with the hops.
I use buckets, so I just toss dry hops in loose.,
If using a sack, you would need to boil the sack to sterilize it, no? Isn't this a risk of infection by placing a hop sack into the fermenter, not the boil?
Yes the hop sack and the weight would need to be sterilized (boiled) first before before adding to the fermenting bucket. You would let it almost completely ferment out, then do your dry hop. When you're ready, boil up your hop sack and your marbles or SS washers, nuts, etc for weights. I think there might be more of an infection risk from the hops that are added that are not boiled.
Can anyone else chime in on this as to why the hops aren't an infection risk?