fatelvis said:So the hop strainer you made is just a straight piece of copper with a lot of small holes in it? Any pics? The ss braid worked so good in the mash tun, I thought it would work with hops.
Actually, it works wonderfully. I don't use hop pellets though, I use dried hop flowers, so it may not work with hop pellets. The hops form a filter bed on top of the hop filter which filters out the cold break. The hop flowers are too big to fit through the holes in the filter. It all works out pretty nicely. Never had a clog with it.Lil Sparky said:The copper w/ holes strainer doesn't sound like a very good technique. If the holes are too big, then it lets all of the pellet hop and break material through, thus being fairly worthless. If they're small enough, then you're not getting the large surface area of a hopstopper or hop bag. When the holes clog, then you're going to have a hard time draining the kettle.
Bobby_M said:That's the rub. There is no permanently installed hop filtering device I know of that will stop a large, 100% pellet hop bill. The mesh style screens will stop a good deal of it but you need at least 25% leaf hops for it to work. You also can't expect miracles with a lot of pellet hops + cold break if you're chilling inside the kettle.
fatelvis said:I guess I'll try a hop bag. It's a cheap thing to try out. I heard you have to increase the hop amounts when you use a hop bag. Anyone else heard of this?
Dude said:
Chimone said:i have a decent size funnel and a kitchen strainer that sits inside of it. It not only strains out the hops extremely well, it aerates as I rack into the primary after chilling.
And a CFC/wort wizard setup. :cross:Bobby_M said:Try that with a 1/2BBL kettle ;-)
Dude, I respectfully rebutt. Notice he includes leaf hops to create a bed. I have a DIY hopstopper with even more surface area than the commercial version and I'm telling you, it cannot stop a large ****100%***** pellet hop bill. I also persist that using it with an IC (tons of cold break) will clog in no time flat.
Or make yourself one of these. Easy and works great.
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Do you remove the hop strainer, add the IC and then put the hop strainer back in the middle of the IC? It was kind of awkward...
Or make yourself one of these. Easy and works great.
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Every time I see that thing, I get jealous. I need to build me one of those.
What if you just put a hop bag over the end your tubing when transferring to the fermentor? The wort would just flow through the bag while stopping all the trub.
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