mrbugawkagawk
Well-Known Member
i know there is more to using a plate chiller than that meets the eyes, i have been told there needs to be some sore of hops filter or something else that you have to use.
The fear is that there are lots of nooks inside those things for gunk to trap in. No one has yet to pony up and risk slicing their chillers to prove exactly how much. Because they work too good.
However, logically, you'd do good to minimalize teh potential for a clog mid chill so, you need to filter hops and hot trub as best as possible. Most, including myself, use a simple paint strainer bag application made into a hop sock.
Periodically, I follow this up with a heavy dose of caustic cleaner.
an idea I've heard here on HBT (although I've never tried it on my plater chiller since I've never had any problems with gunnk) is to toss it in your oven on "self-clean".
So you use a hop sack and the trub just goes through with out any clogging issues?
If you are using a plate chiller and use just a hop bag for your hops should you be using anything else to filter out the trub?
One other question: for those that do a single pass through the chiller, are you PUMPING it through, or does gravity work well enough?
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