people who use no hop bag, how do transfer from kettle to primary?

[pericles]

Carefully.

 

[boydak]

During Ice bath I use a strainer and dip most of it out. Pour the rest through the strainer into the primary.

 

[murphyslaw]

If you're using a bucket as your primary you can use a paint strainer bag from Lowes/HD. They stretch over the bucket opening and you can pour straight from the kettle into the bucket and just lift out the filter bag. Good for aeration too.

Do you have to sanitize the paint bag first?

 

[michaelm]

Do you have to sanitize the paint bag first?

yea just keep it soaking in sanitizer until ready to use

 

[johnnyc]

Sanitize it for sure, I just leave it in my sanitizer bucket the day of. The nice thing is that they're nylon so you can rinse them out and use them over and over. Only about $3 for two of them anyway.

 

[FailureDrill]

I did something similar to bobbym but didnt sew the edges i just rolled or folded them over several times and crimped with my pliers. i made it into a triangle and it has an envelope inside were their is head space. it looks something like this.

it is not flat, but creates almost an elongated U that catches most of the hops above the pickup tube. if i have a chance i will post a pic if you are interested

If you could post a pic of this that would be awesome.

Thanks, Tag