ss braid on pickup tube keeps getting clogged

[slim chillingsworth]

i keep having trouble with the pickup tube in my boil keggle. every batch has gotten completely stuck from hop trub and whatnot and i have to manually clear the braid to keep the siphon going. anyone experience this or have any advice?

it's a copper pickup tube running to a T connection with a ss braid at the bottom of the keggle.

 

[Bobby_M]

I've never heard of a braid actually working as a hop/trub filter. There's just not enough surface area. Are you running a CFC or plate chiller? I've found it's much more functional to put the siphon tube off to the side and try to get a little whirlpool going.

 

[the_bird]

Yeah, I tried using a SS braid way back when, and it doesn't work. Far too much crap to filter if you've got hops loose. I've been using one of the big SS braids (it's got a diameter of at least an inch, maybe an inch and a half, probably a foot long, but I'm also sticking to whole hops in bags. That's been working quite well for me.

 

[slim chillingsworth]

i see... thanks for the input.

 

[ColoradoXJ13]

I just stick to hop bags and have nothing on the end of my pickup tube, everybody in the carboy!