How much beer will I lose dry hopping with whole hops?

[cadarnell]

I am dry hopping a pale with an oz. of whole hops. Right now they are just floating on top in the primary bucket. I've read that, that's okay and I will sill get some good results from the dry hop.

A lot of folks say you do lose a fair amount of beer though when you rack to the bottling bucket. I figure my priming sugar before I rack though so I need to know about how much of a 5 gallon batch I am going to lose.

If anyone with experience could chime in I'd really appreciate it. Thanks and cheers !!

 

[david_42]

About 4 oz per oz of hops.

 

[cadarnell]

About 4 oz per oz of hops.

thanks .. I thought it might be enough to really want to adjust my priming sugar ... but that's not too much ... I'll just hedge the sugar to the lower end of the style recommendation ... CHEERS !!

 

[MaddBaggins]

I try to use only leaf/whole hops when I can get them. I dry hop in a Better Bottle (it has a large opening) and I put the hops in a bag. I'm sure there is some loss, but I'm ok with that.

 

[spenghali]

It's definitely worth it to take the time to put some quart volume markers on your bucket.

 

[smizak]

I have a coffee grinder that I use to pulverize whole hops for dry hopping. Almost all of it gets dragged down by the yeast after I cold crash