I've an enormous hop filter (once described on this forum as "the mother of all hop filters"). Here it is:
It's for a boiler churning out 45-65L batches. But I ran into a problem. I will brew a few 19th century recipes which have big hop quantities of fairly average IBU levels, and my "enormous" hop filter is having difficulty coping. My last brew clogged up severely and I failed to run off the intended batch amount. The remainder was rescued and used for a lower ABV beer.
My "enormous" hop filter needed changing! But bigger diameter SS braid cost a fortune.
But a few weeks ago someone was selling offcuts on eBay and I grabbed at the opportunity:
Getting this fitted is my next project.
Hop filter
Hop filter
Cask-conditioned style ale out of a keg/Cornie (the "treatise"): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwzEv5 ... rDKRMjcO1g
Water report demystified (the "Defuddler"; removes the nonsense!): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
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Re: Hop filter
Seen them! There's a little matter of an inconveniently place heating element (all 6KW of it).
I should have said though: This braided SS sleeving is (apparently) no good with hop pellets.
I should have said though: This braided SS sleeving is (apparently) no good with hop pellets.
Cask-conditioned style ale out of a keg/Cornie (the "treatise"): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwzEv5 ... rDKRMjcO1g
Water report demystified (the "Defuddler"; removes the nonsense!): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
Water report demystified (the "Defuddler"; removes the nonsense!): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
Re: Hop filter
Someone on here suggested a 30p Sainsbury's reusable vegetable bag (nylon mesh) so I used that to keep my hops in place for my last brew, worked a treat.
I brew therefore I ... I .... forget
Re: Hop filter
More than two months later, the filter is built and in action:
Not before time: It's first job was for a 45L batch (+20L but same hops, 'cos this was a "parti-gyle" experiment too) of "historic" London Porter. Close on 1/2 kilo of leaf hops (it will block up with pellets, but then pellets will confound any attempt to use a filter). The boiler emptied as if a filter wasn't there. But this did hi-light another issue: These recipe builders (I use Beersmith) just lump boiler losses as (in the case of Beersmith) "loss to trub and chiller", unlikely any have a "hop absorbance" option. So with a mountain of damp hops left in boiler I came up about 2L short. My equipment profile now includes a note to add "0.25L per 50g hops over 150g" to the "loss to trub and chiller" figure.
I didn't need Irish Moss (Protofloc, etc.) for this, nor did I dare: Irish Moss also has a habit of bunging up hop filters.
I didn't need Irish Moss (Protofloc, etc.) for this, nor did I dare: Irish Moss also has a habit of bunging up hop filters.
Cask-conditioned style ale out of a keg/Cornie (the "treatise"): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwzEv5 ... rDKRMjcO1g
Water report demystified (the "Defuddler"; removes the nonsense!): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
Water report demystified (the "Defuddler"; removes the nonsense!): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
Re: Hop filter
If the geometry of the filter is a bit baffling in the photo above, this is one with the filter in-situ:
It wasn't my intention to include the old gauze "snorkel", but the filter was cut a bit short and the snorkel fills the space. With hindsight the snorkel relieves the filter of pressure to filter when recirculating to sanitise the cooling coil (not that I think that would block this "Mark II" filter).
The removable 1" BSP end-caps allow access to brush out the filter. The "street elbow" fitting has a short length of silicon tube stuffed in it as a dip tube to grab as much wort from the boiler as possible.
The removable 1" BSP end-caps allow access to brush out the filter. The "street elbow" fitting has a short length of silicon tube stuffed in it as a dip tube to grab as much wort from the boiler as possible.
Cask-conditioned style ale out of a keg/Cornie (the "treatise"): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwzEv5 ... rDKRMjcO1g
Water report demystified (the "Defuddler"; removes the nonsense!): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
Water report demystified (the "Defuddler"; removes the nonsense!): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing