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While playing with my grandson and his construction toys, I was thinking a metal fabricator could easily make a shovel bucket arm to fill with hops for dry hopping.
A hollow tube projecting out of a bung would be the release mechanism and double as a blow off tube. Hops are added to the closed shovel bucket at the beginning of fermentation, but remain out of the wort until time to release and dry hop.
When time to dry hop, press down the release on top which opens the shovel bucket and drops the hops into the wort. You've just dry hopped without opening your fermenter! What do you engineers think?
A hollow tube projecting out of a bung would be the release mechanism and double as a blow off tube. Hops are added to the closed shovel bucket at the beginning of fermentation, but remain out of the wort until time to release and dry hop.
When time to dry hop, press down the release on top which opens the shovel bucket and drops the hops into the wort. You've just dry hopped without opening your fermenter! What do you engineers think?