What ever became of Randalizers?

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So, I was doing some random thought games the other day, and settled on the question of hop Randalizers. They seemed to be the ‘must have’ toy to have for infusing fresh hop aromas into often times less than fresh hoppy beers, especially IPAs. It would breathe new life into staled or oxidized beers that had passed their prime ‘use by’ dates.

Oxygen is probably the most obvious staling agent, so the dispensed beer would pass through the Randal just before coming out of the tap. That got me to thinking about an oxygen-free way to dry hop a nearly fermented beer: use a purged mini keg inline between the fermenter/unitank/brite tank and the keg/serving tank as a Randalizer.

Seems like an O2 eliminator and lupulin injector. Thoughts?
 
I was waiting to see what others had to say as I'd been thinking similarly, though re-purposing a standard water-filter housing I'd bought some time ago to experiment with filtering beer. I know that others on here have used kegs, purged with fermentation gas while full of hops and then pumped the beer through. The part that I'm looking for 'someone else's experience with' has to do with the transfer lines... I've replaced all my 3/8" Bevlex 200 transfer lines with 1/4"ID EVABarrier and do worry a bit about the 'hop-soup' potentially clogging.
Dunno if that's any fuel for thought, but maybe the bump will get others to weigh in.
 
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