r8rphan
Well-Known Member
Does dry hopping add any significant bitterness? Or is it mostly just aroma? How about hops flavor, does dry hopping flavor the beer much?
Dry hopping adds little to no bitterness. It adds a ton of aroma and a little bit of flavor. They say if you leave it too long it will start to taste grassy but I have never encountered that before and I'll dry hop up to 2 weeks.
Its my understanding that dryhopping or flameout hopping does add a tiny tiny amount of IBU, but not enough to bother measuring. I recently dry hopped an APA with Citra and I don't think I detect much flavor addition, but boy did it ever give it a tropical fruit/passion fruit aroma. Glad I did it.
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