Help with my brew pot

[joecav]

hey all, I just acquired a used keg and I am trying to turn it into a keggle. I have everything planned out except one part. What is the best way to strain the hops out of the finished wort? I have seen kettles with false bottoms, ss braids and "bazooka tubes?" Until now I have only brewed with pellet hops and am concerned about extra hop particles/slime getting through to my fermenter. Is there a preferred method of keeping hop pellets from going through? Thanks all in advance!

 

[bottlebomber]

hey all, I just acquired a used keg and I am trying to turn it into a keggle. I have everything planned out except one part. What is the best way to strain the hops out of the finished wort? I have seen kettles with false bottoms, ss braids and "bazooka tubes?" Until now I have only brewed with pellet hops and am concerned about extra hop particles/slime getting through to my fermenter. Is there a preferred method of keeping hop pellets from going through? Thanks all in advance!

There's no good way I've seen to strain out pellets that I've seen. I know bazooka screens aren't recommended for use with pellets.

 

[kh54s10]

I use 1 gallon nylon paint strainer bags. I put a couple of marbles in to sink them and tie them with a string and drop them. I tie the string to the handle so they are suspended in the middle. Most of the hops remain in the bag. I have only used pellet hops so far.

 

[aseg]

I use a hand-held colander while draining into the carboy. I put the giant funnel in the carboy, then the colander in the funnel and let 'er rip. This is a two-fer-one deal too. It oxygenates the wort too.

 

[bottlebomber]

I used to worry about straining stuff out when I was an extract brewer, because there just wasn't that much. Then when I went to AG I noticed you are either going to have a few inches of trub in the fermenter, or a half gallon less beer, your choice. If you have your valve installed a few inches from the bottom of the kettle you can let your wort sit for a half hour before draining, and just leave the last few inches behind. It will be about half solids.

 

[1MadScientist]

What I'm going to try this weekend is to transfer the chilled wort to a plastic bucket with a 5 gallon paint strainer bag in it and then pull the bag.

Most would say toss it all in the fermenter, but I want just the clear wort in my corny at the 5 gallon mark before I pressure ferment it.

 

[Polboy]

i use ss braid, it clogged once out of 8 batches, im thinking about adding some kind of false bottom above the braid just to catch some of the trub

 

[bottlebomber]

What I'm going to try this weekend is to transfer the chilled wort to a plastic bucket with a 5 gallon paint strainer bag in it and then pull the bag.

Most would say toss it all in the fermenter, but I want just the clear wort in my corny at the 5 gallon mark before I pressure ferment it.

That's a really good idea!

 

[1MadScientist]

That's a really good idea!

I don't have that many ideas, I stole it from a post that Yooper mentioned, which fits into my new way of keep-it-simple-stupid (KISS).

 

[joecav]

Great ideas! Thanks. So does it make a difference if I use whole hops?

 

[bottlebomber]

Great ideas! Thanks. So does it make a difference if I use whole hops?

The bazooka screen will filter our whole hops just fine, and you can just pitch them into the boil.