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I had to spend a bit of time making sure my magnet was exactly centered before it stopped throwing my bar. I'm using a hard drive magnet so it's a bit different but I would look down into the flask and see if the bar was centered over the middle of the fan, test it and make minor adjustments...

I built my stir plate yesterday and I will say that I'd throw the bar all the time until I really centered the magnet on the fan. It took about 20 mins of "move magnet.... Look down to see where stir bar sits on the magnet.... Turn fan on... Bar thrown.... Repeat" until I got the magnet centered...

I do indeed, but just throw them into the pot. Interesting thought though; the opening never does seem to get closed enough, so maybe that's the culprit. I'm going to build a hop spider before my next brew day so we'll see what different it makes.

Yea I think I'll start doing this as well, thanks.

Yea it seems there isn't a bunch of hop goop left in the kettle after I rack and the bags still contain a bunch of hops after the brew when I clean them, so obviously they are working as designed. I just get a dark green ring'o'hops every brew day.

Thanks everyone. I think I'll scrape it back down as to make me feel better :)

So it seems every time I put my hops in bags and into my boil, I get what appears to be another hot break, and a bunch of the hop material bubbles up and then eventually sticks to the upper portion of my pot. Should I be scraping this off? It seems like a lot of hop material removes itself...

yes please!