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Hop filter
Hey folks - I thought that you'd be interested in a writeup of a hop filter I made. It's basically the same thing as the commercialized Hop Stopper but much cheaper. My filter works really well and this in conjunction with my homemade counterflow wort chiller has cut out 2-2.5 hours from my brew day. You gotta love pumping right from the kettle into your fermenter!
Anyway, check out my hop filter writeup. Cheers!
Excellent write up. Excellet work.
I want a few pics of the filter unit without all the debris on it!
Brilliant! That's a heck of a deal over the commercial product.
That is sweet brother, now I know exactly how much I overpaid buying the original hopstopper! Its OK, I love that thing. Good to see you putting it to work too! Keep on brewin!
very cool, I have alot of that stuff laying around at work, and I definately gotta make that. And i'm sure you know by now.
COUNTER FLOW CHILLERS KICK ASS
Nice write up. I've seen a similar DIY on HBT but I like the shape of yours better. Do you have any pics of it clean and not gunked up with hops?
Also, is something like this a must have when using a plate chiller?
Very nice....certainly better than my uber-ghetto hop stopper. I'm too ashamed to even take a pic, although it does work okay-ish. I'll find out when I rack my IPA over this week. No gunk in the plate chiller when I cleaned, so whatever came through it has probably settled out by now....
FirePitBrew wrote:
Also, is something like this a must have when using a plate chiller?
Yea, one of the drawbacks to a plate chiller is having to have some kind of screen to filter the trub. I use a Bazooka screen, cost about 17 dollars. I have 3 sanke kegs now. (although one is designated for brewchez.), and I'm going to need it to hook up my March pump to, I think the bazooka screen would get clogged to easily with the pump.
Woops, I see that I just answered someone elses question, sorry 1n1m3g, feel free to ridicule my answer.
This thing is 2 sweet, im with FirePitBrew do you have any pics of it all cleaned up? I would love to see them.
BT
Hey I just wanted to point out that our fellow 'BKBer' Wade Hicks submitted this hop filter write up to the 2009 Zymugry Homebrew gadgets of the year column and got in. His homemade hop stopper appears in the Jan/Feb2010 issue, page 18. And its the #2 item in teh top ten list.
So next time you pour yourself a homebrew, give a little nod and a toast to Wade (1n1m3g).
We really have a pretty talented crew here at BKB.
Cheers Wade!
*(If you aren't a member of the homebrewers association you should consider it. The HA puts out a real nice magazine that has higher paper and print quality than BYO. It also contains interesting beer industry stats occasionally too.)
Nice job, Wade. I still haven't let go of my false bottom yet but Im considering it. How is this to clean? I remember cleaning my bazooka screen and it pretty much sucked.
Hey guys - Thanks for the shout out. I'm always looking for ways to help out this great community of homebrew hobbyists! And I'll second the comment Brechez made about the AHA. They are a great resource and of course great advocates to our cause.
Anyway, Andrew, the filter isn't all that difficult to clean because it really doesn't allow big chunks to get through the screen. I basically give it a good blast of water from the nozzle from my garden hose and any protein or smaller hop debris that has gotten to the inside of the filter just washes right back through. The same goes for the pick-up tube inside the filter. No disassembly required. Cheers,
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