Hop Back Filtering

[KTRyan]

Just looking for some opinions on a idea. The short of it is this; my current practice is to whirlpool and then draining from up by the wall of my keggle. New idea is to take all or some of one of my hop additions, say a 5 or 10 minute addition, and start recirculating through my hop back. Then make a new keggle dip tube that draws from bottom center.

The long of it if anyone's interested; the idea came to me when one of my 'hop socks' broke loose and go stuck on my dip tube while I was recirculating for my whirlpool. I like to run boiling wort though my pump, filter, and plate chiller for a good 5 minutes as an extra sanitizing step. When I looked in my kettle I saw one of my normally tethered hop socks stuck on my dip tube, the wort was crystal clear with no hot break or any kind of sediment in the center.

 

[acidrain]

Great idea... I've wondered if adding hops to my pre-filter (a canister filter I have placed before the Chill plate) would help remove finer material while keeping up good flow.
What kind of filter do you use?

 

[KTRyan]

http://www.brewershardware.com/FILTER1.html

That's the filter that I use before my plate chiller, and it does a great job of keeping crud out of my chiller.

When I use my hop back I put it before the filter in order to catch the rush of hop particulate at occurs when wort first flows though the hop back.