Its brewday and i canr fins my hop bags, will whirlpool and ss aponge do the trick?

[Eddiebosox]

So I'm right in the middle of a brew day and realized I can't find my hop bags. And I'm making an imperial IPA. I'm using my new blichmann pot with a ss sponge on the dip tube as a filter and since I'm also using my plate chiller for the first time I was going to whirlpool at flameout.

Would that be enough to clear out hop matter and keep my plate chiller from gunking up?

 

[day_trippr]

That SS scrubby will load up very quickly. You might survive the experience if you're using whole cones and a light schedule, but I think you're in for a nightmare with pellets regardless...

Cheers!

 

[Eddiebosox]

Thanks. I'm just gonna use my old immersion chiller and let whatever hop gunk get through settle out in the fermentor.

Sigh, I need a hop back