Panty hose filter?

[Wables]

When I siphon from the kettle to the fermenter, I always get a lot of break material. I never let it sit long enough after cooling to get it to settle to the bottom. There is just too much good beer mixed in with the break material to let it go to waste, so I keep siphoning and deal with it in the primary. Here is my idea:

The last two batches of wine I made were cranberry and strawberry - both have small seeds. Instead of using a bag, I used a well sanitized pair of my wife's panty hose to squeeze the fruit. It worked like a charm. My thought is to take a pair and cut a leg off in the upper thigh area. Stuff the whole thing through the neck of my 6 gallon carboy, and double the opening over the carboy neck secured with a rubber band. I would then siphon into the leg of the panty hose. After the wort is siphoned, pull the panty hose out of the carboy. The opening should squeeze most of the trapped wort out of the break material.

What do you think? Worst case, it will collect so much stuff that I can't get it out the top. I figure I can just tie it off and drop it back into the primary to be dealt with after fermentation. I cannot brew until next Saturday at the earliest. I am planning my first attempt then.

 

[bummerkit]

I dont know it i would want to leave it in the fermentor, but other than that i dont see why it wouldnt work.

 

[brewt00l]

What do you think? Worst case, it will collect so much stuff that I can't get it out the top. I figure I can just tie it off and drop it back into the primary to be dealt with after fermentation. I cannot brew until next Saturday at the earliest. I am planning my first attempt then.

If you wind up leaving the pantyhose in the carboy until after the ferment, how much different is it than not using the pantyhose filter all together?

 

[marshman]

And if you can't get it out, have you 'lost' the carboy? What would you do with it after you've racked to secondary?

I can tell you that coffee filter paper is really fine and takes forever th strain through.

Good luck!

 

[knipknup]

I've only had cold break in one batch I did. I wonder if there is a way to just avoid it...

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

I know this is kinda different, but I officially just used 100% nylon pantyhose for steeping my grains, worked like a charm.

 

[Blender]

My guess is that you will not be able to sqeeze if out of the neck of the carboy. I think you would be better off sanitzing a small plastic pail and lining it with the pantyhose, then lift it out and let it filter that way. Then funnel the wort into the carboy. I do it that way with a paint strainer filter.

 

[meat803]

Old post but here is my method. Hook a hose up to drain valve on kettle. Use a chip clip to hold pantyhose on the draining end of hose. Put a funnel in the top of carboy and set a strainer on/in funnel. Set hose end/pantyhose in strainer and open valve. Same would work with racking cane tube. Wort is crystal clear.