KatoKiyo
Active Member
I've been brewing AG for a good while now on borrowed equipment (brothers), but he'll soon be taking it back and while I'm away on this trip, I'm envisaging how I will be brewing when I get home.
The set-up I have been using is this: mash-tun and kettle are the same vessel. Lauter-tun and hop back are a Papazian two bucket system and the wort is chilled through a great counter-flow chiller (takes near boiling wort to as low as 8C!). Now, I will lose this equipment, so I want to build an MLT out of a cooler. My question is concerning using plug hops during the boil. As it stands now, I boil them loose in the kettle which means I have to dump the whole volume of boiling wort into my hop-back, which is connected to my chiller. I want to eliminate this hot side aeration, so I've been thinking about an immersion chiller, but I'm wondering what is the best thing for filtering hops? Or rather, what are my options for using plug hops (or pellet, I suppose) and removing the hot side aeration I have in my present system.
I apologize in advance for this long and very rambling post.
Thanks!
Tom
The set-up I have been using is this: mash-tun and kettle are the same vessel. Lauter-tun and hop back are a Papazian two bucket system and the wort is chilled through a great counter-flow chiller (takes near boiling wort to as low as 8C!). Now, I will lose this equipment, so I want to build an MLT out of a cooler. My question is concerning using plug hops during the boil. As it stands now, I boil them loose in the kettle which means I have to dump the whole volume of boiling wort into my hop-back, which is connected to my chiller. I want to eliminate this hot side aeration, so I've been thinking about an immersion chiller, but I'm wondering what is the best thing for filtering hops? Or rather, what are my options for using plug hops (or pellet, I suppose) and removing the hot side aeration I have in my present system.
I apologize in advance for this long and very rambling post.
Thanks!
Tom