Just looking for some advice on method for this recipe on my equipment.
I use an 8 gallon stainless kettle with no valves and brew on a stove. I usually cool with a chiller and siphon to the carboy.
I am a little worried about siphoning problems with over a pound of hops in the kettle in the IIPA I'm doing. The hops are both pellet and leaf and I'm doing so many additions that I feel like adding them to increasingly bloated hop bags is impractical.
Would a nylon bag over the tip of my autosiphon help or harm?
Also, can anyone weigh in on the kind of volume loss I can expect with ~16-20 oz of hops in the kettle, about half dry leaves and half pellets?
I use an 8 gallon stainless kettle with no valves and brew on a stove. I usually cool with a chiller and siphon to the carboy.
I am a little worried about siphoning problems with over a pound of hops in the kettle in the IIPA I'm doing. The hops are both pellet and leaf and I'm doing so many additions that I feel like adding them to increasingly bloated hop bags is impractical.
Would a nylon bag over the tip of my autosiphon help or harm?
Also, can anyone weigh in on the kind of volume loss I can expect with ~16-20 oz of hops in the kettle, about half dry leaves and half pellets?