Dry Hopping - Keg or Carboy?

[TimmyR]

I am tweaking this recipe to make it primarily extract to see if I can get a Pale Ale to come out right and start to have an easy go-to recipe to have on hand all the time (either wet or dry-hopped). So far I'm happy. it could be 1-2 points dryer I think, but it tastes great (finishing the xtra quart my kegs would not hold now...at 60 deg F and flat and its tasty) and sits nicely between an APA and IPA. Hence it my XPA. More to follow.

[TimmyR]

Tasted both batches last night. The wet-hopped batch had a much more prominent flavor and aroma than the stritctly dry-hopped batch. There was not a lot of prominent aroma, but they were flat. The dry-hopped batch had a noticeable, almost sweeter taste I could not quite break out (should have had my wife taste them).

I expected more hop presence after 9 days. My only thought is that at 60 deg F, it takes longer to extract the flavors. I am going to pull the air locks today, reseal, pressurize and mix each keg up and then re-taste in a couple days.

[TimmyR]

OK, so it been about 2-weeks at 60 deg F (each was racked onto hops) with each keg of my split batch. The wet cascade/dry centennial batch tastes clean, crisp and fairly hoppy. The dry cascade/dry centennial batch has a flavor I cannot quite describe..it seems to be a lingering middle flavor I am unfamiliar with. I THINK it could be an off flavor, but am struggling to describe it and ID it.

- Both kegs were clean and sanitized (to the best of my knowledge)
- Both batches were from a single 10-gallon batch and tasted clean and nearly the same before transfer to keg with hops.
- Both hop bags were sanitized.
-The "clean" batch was wet-hopped with cascade, the not-so-clean batch was dry hopped with cascade and had 2 sanitized marbles as a weight in the hop bag (forgot the marbles in the wet-hop batch)

Do dry cascades have an almost sweet taste when dry hopping? It's almost an off sweetness that lingers on the tongue?

Any help or thoughts are appreciated. I am chilling and carbonating now.