Ever get Bees or Leaves in your boiling wort?

[EdWort]

The last time I brewed a batch on my back deck, I kept getting leaves from the Live Oaks landing in my wort. I was also getting bees in there too. What a pain to fish them out.

This time, I have my handy dandy Bee/Leaf Keeper-Outer installed and my wort is boiling away without a worry of some nasty invasion of killer bees without interfering with the evaporation rate.

It's just a Grill Topper from Wally World.

 

[ColoradoXJ13]

I got a bee in my wort last time, fished it out...tried not to think about it.

 

[Pabst Blue Robot]

If you were making a braggot, you could just leave the bee's in!

 

[david_42]

Not since last summer. Major yellow jacket attack. They were really bad in August. The bed of hops filtered the bodies out and none got into the fermenter.

Does that have a finer screen in addition to the expanded metal? I can't tell.

 

[FlyGuy]

I especially like the technical sounding name! :cross:

But to keep with style of homebrew speak, I think you should refer to it from now on as the HDBLKO.

 

[EdWort]

I especially like the technical sounding name! :cross:

But to keep with style of homebrew speak, I think you should refer to it from now on as the HDBLKO.

HDBLKO works for me! And it works for the beer!

 

[FlyGuy]

How about just the BeeStopper (tm)? Has a catchy ring to it.

I dunno -- sounds a lot like BeerStopper. That wouldn't be good. :cross: