stainless steel hop canister/bag

[mattmcl]

My LHBS has these SS tea balls, about the size of a raquetball. They're fantastic, but don't hold enough. I'm sick of muslin and plastic hop bags.

I'm looking to find or build a stainless steel hop canister or bag for boiling hops. Ideally this would be a cylinder made of wire mesh with a screw top lid, and would hold up to 2 oz of whole hops.

One thought I had was to buy a stainless steel canister with a screw top lid and drill billions of holes in it. Another possibility is to buy stainless steel mesh and use rivets to fabricate it, but I don't know how I'd seal the top. Or a combination of the two.

Any thoughts? I've never seen a product like this.

 

[Neilyboy]

I know Zach over at stainlessbrewing is working on something...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f41/stainless-accessories-328846/index8.html#post4220029

neil

 

[carlisle_bob]

Hi

Often you see this done as an external gizmo rather than an immersion device. Blichmann and others have those.

For an immersion design, I'd start with a pair of stainless steel food strainers. Probably clamp them together. That's going to give you most of what you need.

Bob