Zacharomyces

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So..... I have a keggle with an L shaped diptube that points to the bottom of the keggle. I then put a stainless steel scrubby guy between it and the bottom of the keggle. I use the nylon paint stainer bag for hops. I STILL cant get this bugger to drain worth a damn. The slightest amount of break material clogs the filter immediately, god save me if I'm using pils malt. Should I just throw the scrubby out? I dont mind SOME break material in my wort, but I dont want ALL of it..... Any suggestions? Anyone in this same boat?

luvmy40

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I made my siphon tube run around the perimeter of the keggle and put a SS braid on for a strainer. It lays right in the roll at the bottom of the keg. Once I whirlpool the wort after chilling, the break and hops detritus mounds up in the center and the runoff is relatively clear.

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Like mine also.

Even though my braid is off to the side of the kettle, I still get some trub going into the fermenter. I usually let this settle and do another rack if I want clear wort to ferment with.
No big deal for me, just another fermenter to wash and clean.

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I had the same problem. I understand that the scrubby works better if you have the dip tube near the edge of your keggle and then whirlpool the break to the center. That being said I just decided to make a home made hopstopper like Bobby_M' s which works great even without a hop strainer.

Zacharomyces

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Thanks for all the quick replies everyone. For those that have the braid around the bottom circumference: did you have to get multiple braids and use some sort of T joint? I've got one for my MLT that was one of the longest I could find, but im pretty sure it wouldnt make it around the bottom of a keggle.

luvmy40

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I'll try to get a pic and post it...

I used a 6-7" piece of soft copper tubing from a 90 deg. EL off the bulkhead fitting. This is bent and angled to lay right into the radius of the side/bottom of the keggle. The SS braid is just one length( about 12") attached with a hose clamp with the end rolled and crimped.

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The diptube I made is more S-shaped so that the end/inlet lays on the bottom of the keggle. (parallel to the keggle bottom). I don't have any sort of filter on it. I whirlpool the wort, let it settle 10 minutes, and open the ball valve and what goes through, goes through.

The hop material/hot break are in a cone in the bottom and largely stays in the keggle. When I open the ball valve, a small amount of material around the inlet gets pulled into the chiller and fermenter. Once that small area goes through, no other break material seems to be pulled in.

Am I the only one with this sort of KISS setup?

BierMuncher

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Containing your hops during the boil will solve 95% of your siphon problems.





Once you remove the bag it's just a matter of giving the wort a good stirring and letting the cold break settle out. No strainer necessary on your siphon.

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Biermuncher,

Your keggle makes me giggle every time I see a pic of it.

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Same here I have seen it so many times but it is still funny