bribrisprings
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I just built a 1.5 barrel brew system and conical fermenter. In the past, I was dry hopping in glass carboys by putting hop pellets in a mesh bag with marbles to weight it down and dropping it into the carboy. I tried the same technique when I used my conical fermenter for the first time and I certainly did not get the same results. The aroma is just not there like it was before. Should I forget the mesh bag and just drop the pellets into the fermenter from the port on the top, or should I separate the hops into several different bags with weights to get better contact with the beer deeper into the fermenter? Obviously there is much more beer per surface area of the mesh bag in the large fermenter. I also cannot roll the liquid around and shake it up a bit like I could in the small glass carboys. Are large breweries just dumping hops directly into their large fermenters?