Recent content by mwebster22

i brew about one 5-gallon batch per month, and only recently started making yeast starters. All going okay with that except a minor inconvenience with storing my DME I use for the starter. Seems that the DME attracts moisture from my moist Houston air, and even though I keep the bag tightly...

I wonder if it would be possible, after using the screen in the kettle to contain the hops and cooling, to dump the screen, hang it in my ferment bucket, then poor the kettle wort through it to strain some cold break. Would need to stay sanitary, and the hops might not dump out thoroughly but...

Thanks everybody. Ordered a 6x11 300 micron screen today from utahbiodiesel. I have a 13x13" kettle. Pricey, but I'm tired of the hop trub in my fermentor...

Trying to up my game by using hop screens to keep hop residue out of my fermentor and secondary to allow less wasted beer during racking. I fly sparge for 5 gallon batches, and typically brew IPAs, ambers and milk stouts, use pellet hops, using an 8 gallon kettle, and keg, for what it's worth...