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Re: Fine before or after dry hopping?
« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2014, 11:07:12 am »
At the 2013 NHC, Stan H. gave a great presentation on hops and stated that there is new research out there suggesting that dry hopping in the presence of yeast creates a "synergy" effect that creates new aromas and flavors that were not there previously when mixing the dry hops with the yeast.  Some breweries including Stone and a couple Japanese breweries were really doing some heavy studies on this to determine which new by-products were produced when yeast work on hop oils.  Pretty cool!

I've posted here about my experiments with this theory.  Bottom line is that I found what Stan speaks of and now always get the beer off the yeast before dry hopping.

Same here.
Jon H.