Pellet-hop users
#1
Posted 02 August 2009 - 05:56 PM
#2
Posted 02 August 2009 - 06:10 PM
#3
Posted 02 August 2009 - 06:11 PM
I use the screen that you have posted, but I created a pickup tube that goes off to the side and down. After whirlpooling, the cone is in the center and I don't have any problems with the screen clogging. FWIW, I also cut the thing in half so that it would fit. I use pellet form 90% of the time.I boil in a 20G pot with a 1/2" ball valve. When I use whole hops I attach one of these here in-kettle screen thingies. Works great for whole hops, clogs up to uselessness with pellets. When I do use pellets I leave that screen off and use bucket filters from USPlastic . These work OK, but clog quickly and have to be repeatedly swapped out and cleaned. A PITA, plus I'm concerned with all the swapping that I might be compromising my wort microbially. When I use a mix of pellets and whole it's a real clusterfarg - put the screen in and the pellets clog it up, take the screen out and whole hops stop up the ball valve. Not good times.I'm thinking there's got to be a better way. What do you folks use? (Solutions that require a minimum of being able to build stuff myself especially appreciated.)
#4
Posted 02 August 2009 - 07:37 PM
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Posted 02 August 2009 - 08:00 PM
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Posted 02 August 2009 - 08:05 PM
#7
Posted 02 August 2009 - 08:20 PM
Perhaps the OP is using a CFC or a plate chiller and wants to keep the hops particles out as best as he can. I know that's my motivation.I don't use anything, what bad is going to come from transferring some hop matter to the fermenter? I have started to swirl the wort while I chill with my immersion chiller and it has created more or less a hop cone in the center. That has cut down at transfer time. I dont see a reason to filter, its not a commercial brewery and crash cooling will percipitate it out anyways.
#8
Posted 02 August 2009 - 09:48 PM
#9
Posted 03 August 2009 - 08:03 AM
this sounds a bit odd. but I have used knee high pany hose for pellet-hops. and for whole Leaf.all you do is set them up ahead of time and tie them shut drop them in as time requires and they do a great job of reducing the amount of hops in the wort.Like Clint used to say Improvise and Adapt. hoo raaI boil in a 20G pot with a 1/2" ball valve. When I use whole hops I attach one of these here in-kettle screen thingies. Works great for whole hops, clogs up to uselessness with pellets. When I do use pellets I leave that screen off and use bucket filters from USPlastic . These work OK, but clog quickly and have to be repeatedly swapped out and cleaned. A PITA, plus I'm concerned with all the swapping that I might be compromising my wort microbially. When I use a mix of pellets and whole it's a real clusterfarg - put the screen in and the pellets clog it up, take the screen out and whole hops stop up the ball valve. Not good times.I'm thinking there's got to be a better way. What do you folks use? (Solutions that require a minimum of being able to build stuff myself especially appreciated.)
#10
Posted 03 August 2009 - 08:32 AM
#11
Posted 03 August 2009 - 12:07 PM
#12
Posted 03 August 2009 - 12:30 PM
Ditto, except for the cutting part.I use the screen that you have posted, but I created a pickup tube that goes off to the side and down. After whirlpooling, the cone is in the center and I don't have any problems with the screen clogging. FWIW, I also cut the thing in half so that it would fit. I use pellet form 90% of the time.
#13
Posted 03 August 2009 - 01:12 PM
Mine just wouldn't fit around the curve, so I cut it. As the saying goes though, want not waste not, or something like that. The other half found a good home in my buddies system. For the price of one bazooka screen, two systems are benefitting. FWIW, I have been happy with it's ability to strain.Ditto, except for the cutting part.
#14
Posted 03 August 2009 - 02:55 PM
#15
Posted 03 August 2009 - 06:07 PM
FWIW I paid the jing for the hopstopper a couple years ago, and it is by far bettter than a bazooka tube or anything else I have tried. Granted leaf works so much better and some pellet residue does slip by, but if you get a good initial fit when you set the compression fitting, it will suck every bit of wort you can get out of a batch, and I pump directly into a plate chiller w/o issues.This is after about 10 oz of pellets:I have seen people here also make them out of splatter screens bought for grease control in cooking, and sewed the 2 halves together, that would work too, as long as the P/U tube does not get clogged. For the $$ it has been worth it to not have to worry about that part of the brewday anymore.
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Posted 03 August 2009 - 07:03 PM
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Posted 03 August 2009 - 07:20 PM
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Posted 04 August 2009 - 08:30 AM
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Posted 04 August 2009 - 02:16 PM
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Posted 29 August 2009 - 07:39 AM
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