DIY Hop Strainer / Filter

[sparkeee277]

Just throwing this out there for anybody looking for cheap way to keep pellet hop matter out of the fermentation vessel. It's pretty easy to build, about $30 bucks for the materials. Nice thing about it is that you can adjust the height of the hop holder depending on the volume of wort in the kettle.
The filter is from a restaurant supply store, and everything else from Home Depot. Redneck as it may be, it gets the job done nicely.

 

[MattGuk]

Nice job

 

[HausBrauerei_Harvey]

looks pretty awesome. I just built a hop spyder but was already thinking about improvements that could be made.

 

[sparkeee277]

Thanks guys..... No more scraping the hops of my kettle screen when I transfer the wort!

 

[eric19312]

Ive used this strainer in transfering wort to a bucket. Dont use it that much anymore now that I mostly use carboys. I found that the strainer tended to clog pretty fast when used in that application and there was a lot of technique in trying to keep it unclogged.

How does it function in a boil?

 

[sparkeee277]

Ive used this strainer in transfering wort to a bucket. Dont use it that much anymore now that I mostly use carboys. I found that the strainer tended to clog pretty fast when used in that application and there was a lot of technique in trying to keep it unclogged.

How does it function in a boil?

The idea is to keep the top inch or so of the strainer above the top of the liquid level during the boil, with the rest of if submerged. The hops get added into the strainer and are kept in there for the duration of the boil. The utilization should be pretty good with that much wort contact area...... When the boil is done, you just pull the entire strainer set up out with the hops trapped inside. No muss, no fuss.....

 

[divrguy]

Just throwing this out there for anybody looking for cheap way to keep pellet hop matter out of the fermentation vessel. It's pretty easy to build, about $30 bucks for the materials. Nice thing about it is that you can adjust the height of the hop holder depending on the volume of wort in the kettle.

The filter is from a restaurant supply store, and everything else from Home Depot. Redneck as it may be, it gets the job done nicely.

What kind of filter is that? Seems pretty cool


Cheers!

 

[sparkeee277]

What kind of filter is that? Seems pretty cool


Cheers!

It's a commercial strainer that I picked up from a restaurant supply store. It had a handle on it, but I cut it off and used it for the bar that goes across the top of the filter.... It works great as the screen is double walled so nothing gets through except for liquid.....

 

[logdrum]

It's known as a "chinois" or "China Cap" for straining stock, sauces, purees etc.