New way to control Pellet Hop gunk!

[Brulosopher]

I hear ya. No price wars and no drama. I've seen this thread long before and it has nothing to do with how many views or hits it has. I just wanted to state why there is such a difference in price since Stainless Brewing was brought up earlier in this thread and never really a detail why ours is higher. I have plenty to keep busy with and have no intention of driving you or others away from Chad's product. Chad makes a great product and it's obvious he has many happy customers. It sounds like he stands behind his product as well offering a customer to return it because they were not satisfied. I never felt like anyone is hammering Stainless Brewing on here and I don't feel like I'm hammering on Chad or his product. I'm glad he was able to help make something work for you and others.

Cheers!

Cheers to this very kind response!

 

[timmah84]

Just received my order -- the filter looks great! Quality work done. I am looking forward to using this in my brew session this coming weekend. I'll be sure to add post brew highlights. Two thumbs up!

 

[fosgate]

Got mine today. Brown clowns smashed one end of the box and creased the mesh on mine. It will still work though.

 

[DakotaRules]

Got mine today. Brown clowns smashed one end of the box and creased the mesh on mine. It will still work though.

I love that quote! "Brown clowns!"

 

[fosgate]

Brother in law works as UPS and hates it when I refer to them like that.

 

[bottlebomber]

I love that quote! "Brown clowns!"

Me too! Never heard it!

 

[helibrewer]

I give my Brown Clown homebrew because he delivers my DIY stuff!! He even brings my bottles back (he use to brew).

 

[marcb]

I give my Brown Clown homebrew because he delivers my DIY stuff!! He even brings my bottles back (he use to brew).

Mine just shakes his head when I order bulk grains, but I help him unload the bags : )

 

[Strongbad52]

Marcb, if you don't mind my asking, where do you order the grains from and how much is it shipped?

 

[Kyled93]

Brewed my vanilla caramel cream ale this morning. The filter worked out beautifully. The only item in the bottom of the kettle was a little bit of hot break.

That being said when others brew with this filter, do you leave in the filter until you transfer to your fermenter or remove it during cooling?

 

[marcb]

Marcb, if you don't mind my asking, where do you order the grains from and how much is it shipped?

I have been mostly using breworganic.com for base organic malt and Munich (organic) and buying bulk (several sacks) at 10-15% off to cover tax and shipping as they are only about 30 miles from my house in CA. I also use Williams brewing for my Belgian pilsner grain and candi sugar and end up paying about 65-70$ 25 kilo sack shipped. They had the best price on candi sugar if you bought 12 or more it was about 3.50 per lb for imported candi sugar. All my yeast is white labs and comes from morebeer and then I make starters with organic light dme.

 

[marcb]

Brewed my vanilla caramel cream ale this morning. The filter worked out beautifully. The only item in the bottom of the kettle was a little bit of hot break.

That being said when others brew with this filter, do you leave in the filter until you transfer to your fermenter or remove it during cooling?

I usually remove it when I cool/whirlpool except for recipes that call for flameout hops.

 

[Gabba]

I just want make sure some are comparing apples to apples as far as the actual size and price paid for Chad's baskets vs ours. A lot of pictures on here show 6" but the $29 basket on Ebay has a description of 4". I feel we're pretty fair on price as well compared to Chad's. Being a homebrewer myself and a preferred vendor we can always help out with cheaper alternatives. I'm not knockin on Chad's products or trying to steal anyone's thunder, I just wanted to point a few things out if some didn't see that we're not far off on price.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f41/stainless-accessories-328846/index29.html

Now now lets not get into a price war...

High prices only help the seller, the taker of the money; price wars benefit all the consumers and the little guy who ain't got much in his pocket.

 

[BullGator]

Has there been an attempt to make one for a keggle? It would have to be centered and not hang off the side.

 

[bottlebomber]

Has there been an attempt to make one for a keggle? It would have to be centered and not hang off the side.

Yep, Stainless Brewing done had one made

 

[chads454]

Has there been an attempt to make one for a keggle? It would have to be centered and not hang off the side.

Here's one I put together the other day.
It's just a prototype. Thoughts?

 

[rossi46]

Here's one I put together the other day.
It's just a prototype. Thoughts?

Looks good, one thing would be to move your cross bars as far to the outside as possible so the opening is bigger.

 

[tdiowa]

Got my 300 micron last week and it works like a charm. Been trying to solve the hop remnant problem for years and now I have.

***Recommended Buy***

TD

 

[timmah84]

Used mine this past weekend. It was awesome. No hop gunk was to be found outside of the filter. Mine is the 300 micron sizing

 

[meadmazer]

Can hot/cold break be removed by pouring the wort through this into the fermentor, or will it break up and go through?

 

[bottlebomber]

Can hot/cold break be removed by pouring the wort through this into the fermentor, or will it break up and go through?

I would say from trying to filter through similar items that it is just going to clog. The best way I've found to remove break material is to put the lid on the kettle after cooling and let it sit for an hour. If you got a good break 95% of the material will settle down to under the ball valve. Then just drain and leave the crap behind. You'll lose a little wort, but I just shoot for slightly higher volume and it loses me maybe 2% efficiency overall.

 

[Brulosopher]

I would say from trying to filter through similar items that it is just going to clog. The best way I've found to remove break material is to put the lid on the kettle after cooling and let it sit for an hour. If you got a good break 95% of the material will settle down to under the ball valve. Then just drain and leave the crap behind. You'll lose a little wort, but I just shoot for slightly higher volume and it loses me maybe 2% efficiency overall.

Or just don't worry about it . I use a 15 gallon kettle with a ball valve and try to leave the hot break behind, but since I also recirc and use a plate chiller, sh!t gets stirred up. Still, I haven't noticed any difference in the clarity of my beers after a week or two in the keg.

 

[bottlebomber]

Or just don't worry about it . I use a 15 gallon kettle with a ball valve and try to leave the hot break behind, but since I also recirc and use a plate chiller, sh!t gets stirred up. Still, I haven't noticed any difference in the clarity of my beers after a week or two in the keg.

I don't worry about it affecting clarity of the finished beer, I am just all about getting really clean beer to the bottle and for me that means keeping as much crap out of the fermenter as possible. I was so ready to get a plate chiller, and then suddenly read a lot of threads about people having trouble with them draining incredibly slowly. I think a CFC with a recirculating ice bath is going to end up being the way I go eventually.

 

[Brulosopher]

I don't worry about it affecting clarity of the finished beer, I am just all about getting really clean beer to the bottle and for me that means keeping as much crap out of the fermenter as possible. I was so ready to get a plate chiller, and then suddenly read a lot of threads about people having trouble with them draining incredibly slowly. I think a CFC with a recirculating ice bath is going to end up being the way I go eventually.

Of you don't have some form of filtering your hops (I currently use 5 gal paint bags), a plate chiller will absolutely clog... it sucks.

 

[rickski8014]

Here's one I put together the other day.
It's just a prototype. Thoughts?

I like it!! How Much $$$.

 

[BullGator]

I use a hop spider to contain my hops. Can someone who used to use a hop spider and now uses one of these give a rundown of the plus and minuses of this stainless steel screen? Thanks.

 

[Kyled93]

I use a hop spider to contain my hops. Can someone who used to use a hop spider and now uses one of these give a rundown of the plus and minuses of this stainless steel screen? Thanks.

Hey BullGator, if your in the South Florida area you can come see the one I bought. Let me know.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

I finally got to put my 300 micron screen to use today. I brewed a Russian Imperial Stout with just shy of 7 ounces of hop pellets. As you can see the residue remained in the screen and there was nothing in the wort. Also, I had no problems slipping the IC in beside the screen (my pot is 13.25" ID.) Clean up was easy (after it cooled, just dumped it into a bag and then hosed it off. After that a quick clean with soap & water and it's ready to go again!)

 

[dogbar]

Great pics. Most people finding the same perceived bitterness after using these?

I finally pulled the trigger on this a couple days ago. Looking forward to finally solving the leftover hop gunk problem.

 

[chads454]

I like it!! How Much $$$.

Still a work in progress,

Here's the latest 6x14