davepeds
Well-Known Member
Our group is working on our equipment - putting together bits and pieces at a time. We built a sweet mash tun, a keggle, and bought a plate chiller. Then, I knew we'd have to filter out the hops at the bottom (pellets) for the chiller. From the local asian supermarket, I bought a stainless big dipper thing that you use to fish dumplings out of hot grease. We cut a hole in it for the dip tube, surrounded it with a copper scrubber, and gave it a shot. Ha! Awful. Plugged the chiller. We then poured the wort through a nylon bag (essentially bought and saved to make hop spider, that I freakin forgot about) and probably (definitely) aerated the hell out of hot wort. Then we poured it back into the keggle and sucked it through the dip tube - no hitches thereforth. Damnit.