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re: Homebrewing Thread: Volume II
Posted on 4/17/17 at 6:04 pm to Prosecuted Collins
Posted on 4/17/17 at 6:04 pm to Prosecuted Collins
Big Brew is coming up the first Saturday in May. Check on the AHA website to see if any clubs are doing a group brew in your area. If so, go and look around and you'll see all sorts of different rigs. There are as many ways to skin this cat as there are brewers.
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Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:16 am to MountainTiger
Technique question. I just brew a heavily hopped beer and i had issues with a ton of hops being transferred into the fermentor. i whirlpooled prior but still didnt get the hop matter to the center, most was just floating on the top.
How do yall keep all the hops from going into your fermentor? big funnel and a hop sack?
Im also thinking of going to a SS brew bucket but hard to justify 200 on a fermentor.
How do yall keep all the hops from going into your fermentor? big funnel and a hop sack?
Im also thinking of going to a SS brew bucket but hard to justify 200 on a fermentor.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:19 am to CarRamrod
quote:
Technique question. I just brew a heavily hopped beer and i had issues with a ton of hops being transferred into the fermentor. i whirlpooled prior but still didnt get the hop matter to the center, most was just floating on the top.
How do yall keep all the hops from going into your fermentor? big funnel and a hop sack?
I don't worry about if hops get in the fermentor. I'm gonna end up putting more in anyway. Just cold crash before kegging/bottling so they all drop to the bottom.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:31 am to CarRamrod
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How do yall keep all the hops from going into your fermentor? big funnel and a hop sack?
I'm not worried about them getting into my fermenter. However I would like to keep them out of my plate chiller.
What I used to do is use a Bazooka screen in my kettle and use only whole hops. The hops made sort of a filter bed and filtered a lot of the trub out too.
In my new system, I've tried all sorts of things: hop bags, spiders, this thing.
Here's what I'm using now.
I've only made a couple of batches with it but so far I like it a lot.
This post was edited on 4/18/17 at 10:32 am
Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:33 am to BMoney
it feel like it is just a ton of hops. How do you like your SS brew bucket? im contemplating getting once since i am about to buy another fermentor cause i need one. I thought why not spend 4x as much to get a good one. do you hvae a fermentation chamber to regulate the temp?
Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:35 am to MountainTiger
quote:i used one of these on my last NEIPA and i have to constantly scraped off the screen cause it clogged up after only a gallon or 2 was transfered.
Bazooka screen
Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:37 am to CarRamrod
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How do you like your SS brew bucket?
No SS brew bucket here. Just bought a Craft-a-brew Catalyst fermentor, but haven't gotten a chance to use it yet.
quote:
do you hvae a fermentation chamber to regulate the temp?
I've got a separate room attached to my garage with it's own A/C unit that I can keep at perfect ale fermenting temps year round. So I just have my fermentors on the floor in there.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:38 am to CarRamrod
i have looked into those. but it seems every brew im buying this for 100$ im buying that for 100$. Plus might get old pulling that in and out everytime i pull my chilling coil in and out. might have to move to a plate chiller.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:39 am to CarRamrod
Mine only did that if I used a TON of hops. If it was the usual 4-5 oz., I had no problem as long as I didn't try to run off too fast.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:56 am to MountainTiger
quote:might be my problem by that time im wide open wanting it to hurry up.
as long as I didn't try to run off too fast.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 12:26 pm to CarRamrod
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How do yall keep all the hops from going into your fermentor?
I dont, at all.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 12:27 pm to CarRamrod
quote:
it feel like it is just a ton of hops.
I have a 3"+ layer of trub, hops and yeast in the fermenter I'm cold crashing at the moment
Posted on 4/18/17 at 12:34 pm to CarRamrod
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How do you like your SS brew bucket?
Love the shite out of mine.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 12:51 pm to BottomlandBrew
quote:well i need to buy a 2nd fermentor. talk me out of dropping 220 on one of these. how do you control your temps?
Love the shite out of mine.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 1:14 pm to CarRamrod
I have an old fridge with temp controller. I stick the probe in the thermowell. If you get the bucket, you'll need new o-rings. I bought 100 on Amazon for like $5 and just change them out every time I change up yeast. The stock o-rings are too squishy.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 2:44 pm to BottomlandBrew
link on amazon?
damn you. i just bought one.
damn you. i just bought one.
This post was edited on 4/18/17 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 4/18/17 at 2:51 pm to CarRamrod
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damn you. i just bought one.
I love this hobby.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 3:40 pm to CarRamrod
Posted on 4/18/17 at 3:46 pm to BottomlandBrew
o i just wanted to get te right size. now that i have purchaced one. this has to be my niced piece of equipment yet. everything else has been DIY or used or salvaged.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 7:43 am to CarRamrod
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How do yall keep all the hops from going into your fermentor? big funnel and a hop sack?
I use a fine mesh SS strainer on top of a funnel that also has it's own strainer. The SS strainer catches the bigger particles while the funnel strainer gets everything else. I also give my wort a final whirlpool after it's sufficiently cooled down and wait about 10 minutes before transferring to the carboy. Hop pickup is usually pretty minimal.
Brulosophy has done some experiments of filtering vs. non filtering out trub/hop sediment and their appears to be negligable difference in taste, and very minimal in appearance. I still do it my way so i have less to worry about when transferring to a keg.
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