jonbomb
Well-Known Member
I bought this hop ball from midwest. Think its useful for me to use it??
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/hop-ball.html
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/hop-ball.html
Yes, it is a handy thing to have. I haven't used it in the boil, but have used it to dry hop in the keg. Put 1 oz of pellet hops in there and left it in until the keg ran dry. When I pulled it out the hops had expanded to fill the entire ball all the way.
Beware trying to do more than 1 oz of pellets at a time!
I have one (Walmart), I put about 1 oz of pellet hops in it once; I couldn't figure out why the ball was floating on the top. I opened it up & the hops were compacted in there very tight. I don't think I was getting much utilization. I had used it previously with .25 oz of pellets & it worked fine.