SS Hop Basket

[CrowbarKarl]

So did this device ever get used?

-J

Yes, I did use the device a few times. It does work but it is a balancing act between keeping a rolling boil and screen size on the bottom of the basket. You want to keep a nice rolling boil throughout. I eventually abandoned it for now when I bought a Hop Stopper. It seems to work fairly well at keeping hops out of my plate chiller.

 

[Jazong]

I also have a Hop Stopper and it does keep the hops out of the plate chiller, but by the time it gets too coated to allow anymore wort through I still have almost 2 gallons of wort in my kettle. I think the work much better with Keggles. I need a better solution. Maybe I'll recirculate into a paint strainer bag before I run it through the chiller, kind of like a hop spider/hanger. That should take most of the hops out of solution. If I leave the Hop Stopper in it should catch whatever the paint strainer doesn't and it shouldn't restrict the flow down to nothing near the end.
Thanks for the response.

Cheers,

-J