Dryhopping effectiveness question?

[Pelican521]

Hi all, I just bottled my SN Torpedo clone today and was wondering if its normal for it not to have too much hop aroma at this point?

There was a generous amount of hops I used for dryhopping that I put in muslin bags and dryhopped at 68 degrees for 4 days followed a day of cold crashing.

Ideally I would have liked to have 5 days to dryhop but needed to bottle today.

Just wondering if the hop aroma will be more pronounced when it carbs up or is this pretty much it?

 

[duboman]

Generous meaning at 3-4oz of hops? 5-7 days would've been better IMO

 

[Pelican521]

Hmmm, maybe not as generous as I thought. It was only 2-1/3 oz. seemed like a lot to me, especially when trying to get the bags out of the carboy.

Anyway, when I tasted it i really didn't get a big hop aroma. Do you think it will be more pronounced when it carbs up?

 

[uxo]

I read that dry hopping when too much yeast in suspension will lower its effectiveness. Apparently, the hop oils attach to the yeast and drop into the turb.

I have dry hopped beers with a hop sack and thought that was the culprit. So this time around I did without it and still didn't smell a difference. I bottled a pale ale dry hopped with 2oz. Tasted good but lacked aroma.

I don't get it. Feels like a waste of hops.