Jakeintoledo
Well-Known Member
When boiling wort, I get really irritated that I have to leave a gallon or gallon and-a-half in the kettle due to not wanting to get trub into the carboy. So I hauled it over to Bed Bath and Beyond and found a stainless, gasketed small container, and a coarse strainer in a dome shape, and set about drilling holes in the container to stick (and have welded by a fabricator friend) two stainless tubes into this container, and into which I was able to load two ounces of leaf hops.
My fabricator buddy told me that using epoxy would be equally safe to do, and after a week's curing, epoxy is as impermeable to food as stainless is (not sure about that but whatevs).
Question for the group--how much of a difference in beer flavor might be attributed to using a hopback? has anyone done the same recipe with and without a hopback? I'm expecting / hoping for huge aroma. I used the hopback when the wort was about 110, so we'll see....
for what it's worth, I don't know what actual hpobacks go for, but this cost me $9 @ Bed Bath and Beyond, and I had the stainless tubing laying around (but I suppose a couple of brass or small stainless bulkheads would have worked swell too)
My fabricator buddy told me that using epoxy would be equally safe to do, and after a week's curing, epoxy is as impermeable to food as stainless is (not sure about that but whatevs).
Question for the group--how much of a difference in beer flavor might be attributed to using a hopback? has anyone done the same recipe with and without a hopback? I'm expecting / hoping for huge aroma. I used the hopback when the wort was about 110, so we'll see....
for what it's worth, I don't know what actual hpobacks go for, but this cost me $9 @ Bed Bath and Beyond, and I had the stainless tubing laying around (but I suppose a couple of brass or small stainless bulkheads would have worked swell too)