keg to kettle filter

[Christafer11]

Ok so I got a keg and have cut the top off and ordered the weld less fittings from bargainfittings.com .My question is what to do about the screen/filter for the bottom (at this time just lme brewing and no hop bag using pellets) should I use the stainless steel water hose covering like many have for the mash tun? What other ideas are there or just simply use racking cain to pull it out. I do plan on doing 10gal boils so I would like to use the ss ball valve with a T so I can have even flow to my primaries not top and bottom of the wort. Thanks for any info and help

 

[Suthrncomfrt1884]

Unless you're using a CF chiller or a plate chiller, you don't have to worry much about sucking the hops and break material into your fermentors. I don't like the extra sludge either, so I use a SS strainer and just set it on top of my fermenter. It's huge, so it covers the whole top of my bucket.

It also helps to aerate the wort.

 

[Christafer11]

Im using a submersion chiller I made 50ft no cf. I use glass carboys so no screen on top to catch the junk that's why I was thinking of the ss tube inside the boil pot to help screen it.

 

[devildancer]

I use something very similar to this: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/home-made-hop-stopper-hop-taco-etc-98110/

 

[Christafer11]

I just used the keegel and did a 10 gal batch. I installed the weldless ss bale valve set up from bargain fittings. On the inside I used copper tube to the center of the keg and straight down with about 1/4" or less to the bottom open. Since I did a 10gal brew I hooked up a "T" and hoses to the outside to fill both buckets evenly. It worked great very similar to using a racking cane as far as how much sludge go sucked up just the initial flow then just the wort was flowing. I think it may have worked better than the racking cane at the end with very little wort having to be left.

 

[tomroeder]

I used to sweat about break and hop material getting into my carboys, but I have realized that I make good beer with or without it in the carboys, and I don't re-use yeast, so what's the point? I tried a stainless scrubby, like a brillo pad over the end of my pick up tube once. I was brewing 10 gallons of a APA, with a decent hop bill. That scrubby plugged up after about 3 gallons of wort removed. Damn! So I siphoned the rest. I am considering cutting my pick up tube off a bit so that the last 2" or so of wort will be left behind, hopefully with the break and hop material, but maybe not...