grain bag?????
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Brewsmith
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Cheesecloth
Nylons
Nylons
lol, i used a sock once. turned out fine.
Paint straining bag at the hardware store.
brewt00l
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kitchen mesh strainer
à Flannagáin
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Nylon stockings, the kind that come in an egg. Just make sure it's 100% nylon in the leg part.
brewt00l
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Raffie said:
That's how I did a number of PM brews and it worked PDG.
I reuse mine all the time- just rinse well and I throw them in the dishwasher.
The "best" strainer? I use a metal colander that fits over the opening of my primary bucket and dump it in. I can do this myself pretty easily, although 5 gallons is pretty heavy!
I sanitize my colander in my primary bucket while I'm sanitizing every thing else during the boil.
The "best" strainer? I use a metal colander that fits over the opening of my primary bucket and dump it in. I can do this myself pretty easily, although 5 gallons is pretty heavy!
I sanitize my colander in my primary bucket while I'm sanitizing every thing else during the boil.
When I did steeps and PM's, I would use a large steel mesh strainer and slightly whirlpool the hot wort and manually dip out as much of the grain as I could.marshman said:
After that, I would pour the wort through that same strainer into several smaller pots and then reassemble the mix back into the larger pot.
A steel mesh strainer is usually fine enough to catch your cracked hulls and most the other particles.
For strainer purposes, I'm just looking to seperate my dry-hop from the beer when it comes time to bottle in a few weeks. I was considering GENTLY pouring from secondary into bottling bucket through cheesecloth & colander. Sounds good, anyway.
marshman said:
You don't want to do that! You want to gently siphon without aerating at all. You use an autosiphon or a racking cane and it has a little tip on it that helps keep the floaties out. The trub is at the bottom, so you just rack above the bottom and you don't have to filter. Dryhopping does make it harder- I had pieces of hops that still got sucked up a little, but when you let that sit in your bottling bucket, it seems to sink.
If you absolutely want to strain, you can use a straining bag over your racking cane and that will help. But don't pour your beer and/or filter it that way!
