clogged up hop sock grief - help!

[Gurgeh]

So first time using hop pellets and i've used some very thin muslin to cover my hop filter.

pellets plus longer boil than usual plus my last whirlfloc and a good fast cooling meant that i have a much larger amount of trub to deal with. hop sock clogged up after half a pint.

i left it alone for 4 hrs but only a gallon escaped into the FV. i then had the bright idea of equipping a SS sieve with some more muslin and steaming that for 5 minutes. put that under the pipe from the boiler, knocked out the hop filter and swiftly got that blocked up too.

so sod it. i've pitched my starter, let nearly all the trub & pelletgunge come through, aerated it through the pump and by morning fermentation will be going a storm.


should I...
...let the trub settle out overnight, drop the ferment into a spare FV tomorrow and allow fermentation to continue?

or...
get back out there and do something tonight?

or...
something else (i.e. nothing!)

[Gurgeh]

voice of reason - thanks DaaB.

[steve_flack]

So first time using hop pellets and i've used some very thin muslin to cover my hop filter.

pellets plus longer boil than usual plus my last whirlfloc and a good fast cooling meant that i have a much larger amount of trub to deal with. hop sock clogged up after half a pint.

That's not a hopsock.

This is a hop sock




..although DaaB's called it a few other things in the past.

[steve_flack]

You're only jealous that that's the only thing I can get to fit me....

[Gurgeh]

oh bum - but DaaB didn't you post a photo of a hop filter covered in muslin and call it a hop sock a few months ago?

SF - do you put the pellets in that and suspend it in the boil then?

[steve_flack]

SF - do you put the pellets in that and suspend it in the boil then?

Yes...I hang it from the top of the boiler using a device cunningly fashioned from an old metal coat hanger,

[steve_flack]

Wow, you must have a hard time finding trousers big enough

Yeah MC Hammer has nothing on my trousers....

[RabMaxwell]

I use a home made hop stopper made from 2 splatter guards i got the idea from Aleman they work very good with pellets or whole hops.

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[mysterio]

I'm in the middle of building my Aleman hop-stopper clone, great idea

[MightyMouth]

I use a home made hop stopper made from 2 splatter guards i got the idea from Aleman they work very good with pellets or whole hops.

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Did you un-crimp one and add the mesh from another to it?

[Aleman]

should I...
...let the trub settle out overnight, drop the ferment into a spare FV tomorrow and allow fermentation to continue?

or...
get back out there and do something tonight?

or...
something else (i.e. nothing!)

I would have let it all settle then syphoned it from the boiler into the FV












Easy to see the solution with hindsight

[Gurgeh]

I would have let it all settle then syphoned it from the boiler into the FV


Easy to see the solution with hindsight

OMG what a plank - it's not like I havn't got one!
Long live the humble syphon

That was the beer I ended up spilling all over the shed floor anyway.
Got a lot of experience from that particular brew