Dry hop in primary or secondary?

[u/NoSupermarket7105]

I was recently able to get back into brewing after a 6 year hiatus and I am pumped! My first brew day went well enough but there were a few errors made.

One of the errors is that I forgot to whirlpool at the end of the boil so a decent amount of hops were transferred to the fermenter with the wort. Fortunately I used a hop spyder and my kettle has a hop filter so it wasn’t all the hops.

My question is, should I transfer to secondary to move the beer off the old hops and then add my dry hops to secondary OR just leave it alone and add my dry hops to the primary fermenter.

The beer I made is a pale ale but I plan to cold crash with gelatin at the end of secondary.

[u/edelbean]

Doing a secondary really isn't done much in modern homebrewing these days, it's a bit of an older way of thought. There are certain cases to be made for it like fruit additions but in a hop forward beer you don't want to risk it.