Hop rocket anyone ever use pellet hops

[Brew Beard]

I bring this up because the new hop missle will accept pellet hops with rice hulls in a bag. Can I do this in the hop rocket? They look identical.

 

[day_trippr]

I don't see pellets as being intrinsically compatible with hop rockets in general.

This note is from the Kegland site:

Please Note:
When using pellet hops, or if you have a large amount of trub and debris it may compact and impede the flow of the Hop Missile. To help prevent this, installing a pre-filter in your pot is recommended to prevent excessive quantities of material from entering the hopback. We also highly recommend using rice hulls in combination with hop pellets to aid in wort passing through the Hop Missile.

I would expect lining that device with fine mesh would cause it to block up as soon as the pellets turn into mush (a minute?)

Cheers!

 

[Brew Beard]

If you layer the hops in a mesh with rice hulls, just wodering if anyone has tried it.

 

[day_trippr]

Given how similar this device is (if not an outright rip-off) of the Blichmann HopRocket I'd Google the latter wrt use with pellets and see what folks have had the best success doing...

Cheers!

 

[radwizard]

I reckon a cone / pellet combo would get ya some better results as far as flow and filtering. Pellets are much easier to deal with in the kettle, I can't imagine a device making it easier to separate then a standard whirlpool collection. Cones are a different ballgame, and a proven to be a PITA on my system with some kind of filter device.

 

[stealthfixr]

David Heath did a YouTube video on the Hop Missile with pellet hops, successfully. He used whole hops, rice hulls, a muslin bag and layers.

 

[Brew Beard]

I saw the video and he reverses the flow to make it work easier.

 

[LarMoeCur]

I've seen people use a stainless steel scouring pad as a filter with pretty good results.

 

[hungupdown]

I don't see pellets as being intrinsically compatible with hop rockets in general......
I would expect lining that device with fine mesh would cause it to block up as soon as the pellets turn into mush (a minute?)

That's exactly what can happen, when using pellets in a hop spider.
But spiders still worthwhile. As even if overflowing, the vast majority of the pellet mush, still remains in the spider (rather than blocking the pump).

I wonder about the often quoted figure, that (per gram), leaf hops only give 80% the the IBU of pellet hops. When there's much better flow through leal hops, compared to pellets, where mush only has flow around the outside.

 

[DuncB]

@hungupdown

This thread is about hop rockets or the clone hop missile.

They are different from hop spiders!!