tszetela
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Just picked mine up today and it is nice and solid!
Thanks and good luck Chad!
Thanks and good luck Chad!
Any one have any reports for large amounts of pellet hops? 12 oz. or so?
I'll post back this weekend. I won't be using 12 oz, but I'll have something like 9-10oz, in a combo of leaf and pellet this weekend for a planned brew.
I'll post some pictures, and whatnot.. I'll also taste my Chocolate Oat Porter I did to break in the filter and see if I got the right level of hop utilization, or if it changed it a bit since the boil doesn't really get wild in there.
Here's the first short video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnxxM-Vy-k8&list=UUdi70AsdcSgs2LWmzFNBIMA&index=1&feature=plcp
Awesome! Thanks for posting. Is this the 400 or the 300 micron basket?
Quite a strong boil. What size BK and elements do you use?
Yambor-
You have the same thinking I did when I used mine. I get a strong boil going via propane burner, much like your electro set up. I had a bit more movement in the screen than you did, but it was subdued enough to make me wonder if I was getting everything from the hops.
I ferment in kegs. I want to try this out for filtering hot/cold break and possible flameout hop additions I throw directly into the boil kettle.
I may have missed this, but why not forgo the other screen during the boil and just use this one at the end? Free float your hops for the entire boil -> chill with an IC -> whirlpool and let things settle -> run the wort into the keg through this screen.
Alternatively, you could do the bittering hops as usual with this smaller screen, then dump them out and clean the screen just before adding your flameout additions. I guess you'd get more utilization that way because the screen would not be full of spent hop sludge.
I may have missed this, but why not forgo the other screen during the boil and just use this one at the end? Free float your hops for the entire boil -> chill with an IC -> whirlpool and let things settle -> run the wort into the keg through this screen.
Alternatively, you could do the bittering hops as usual with this smaller screen, then dump them out and clean the screen just before adding your flameout additions. I guess you'd get more utilization that way because the screen would not be full of spent hop sludge.
It strikes me as a fancy way to do the old "strainer over a funnel" a la old school Papazian....
I do this as well.. I'll put the strainer in a funnel and the funnel in the carboy. No real issues there. Aerates it all in one too.
FATC1TY said:I do this as well.. I'll put the strainer in a funnel and the funnel in the carboy. No real issues there. Aerates it all in one too.
Ok got mine about two weeks ago, supprised at how fast it was. Got to try it this weekend. Did an imperial IPA. 7oz of hops l8r saw water moving through it throughout the boil and it didn't hold back water when moving wort to fermentor.
Call is zero hops in the boil kettle. It had some gunk in the bottom but none of it green
I'll call this a win!!!
BTW: did the 300 micron..
How was the hop utilization brewing the IPA? Just as good or better than grain bags?
I'm straight worried that my hop utilization will drop with this.
I've gotten 3 brews under my belt with it. In the middle of the 3rd with it so far, and I've found that it clogs a bit, and slows down the flow once you really start adding hops, and going deeper into the boil
I've got a couple of ounces.. probably... 4 or 5oz all pellets in mine right now, and when I pull it out, it's slow as HELL to drain. Infact when I drop it back in the pot, it floats a bit, before it slowly sinks because the screen is clogged. I do however, see hop sludge in the kettle when I'm done, and when I stir in the screen I can see some of it coming out through the screen a bit..
I have the 300 micron mesh..
Jury is still out, IMO. If the beers taste fine, and hoppy, then I'll roll with it.. Otherwise... ehhh.
Gonna see how the beers turn out, but man..
My thoughts EXACTLY! Same experience last weekend.
I think 400 mesh would be a better choice.
FATC1TY said:I"m wondering if the 400 would clog less.... but then.. if it did even half as bad as the 300 does, then I would see the 400 being worse.
I'm tempted to just go to tossing all my hops in the boil again if they are pellets, and keep the leaf in here only.
jammin said:My thoughts EXACTLY! Same experience last weekend.
I think 400 mesh would be a better choice.
You make no sense.
You make no sense.
What? I understand perfectly well.. You just need more homebrew.
FATC1TY said:No, what makes no sense is how this thing clogs up so damn bad, even CLEANING it out, it holds water in it after I've dumped the hops.
This is all the hops I used.. Roughly.. 4 ounces, maybe 5oz.
This is the strainer.. with the hops dumped, and I've taken my hose with a HP tip and sprayed water back through the strainer from the outside. No real large clumps of hops in there, all dumped. It's so clogged, it's holding water long enough I can drop the hose, and pull out my phone to take a picture.
Here's a side view of said hop dam. I stopped spraying a section from the outside. Notice to the left, the water INSIDE of the screen.
If I can't get the wort out of it, how on earth would one assume that it's boiling your hops and running it through all of the wort in the pot. This screen is essentially once it gets clogged up, it's own mini kettle in a kettle.
I'm hoping I got some hop flavor in my beer, I would think I got some, but to what extent. I still had hop particulate in the kettle when I whirlpooled and drained it, much less than in the past, but still had some none the less.
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