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Making Hops Plugs 1 of 3
So here is the system of making hops plugs that I used this year. It consists of weighing out the dried hops into 1 oz piles, placing them within a 3" diameter drain pipe separated by 3" diameter hard plastic wafers (sacrificed an extra 5 gal pail lid going to waste), so that I had four oz in the pipe, and then pressed as hard as possible using a section of an old broken wood bat as a plunger. After pressing, I worked them out of the pipe, and sealed them into vacuum seal bags, two stacks of two 1 oz pucks separated by plastic. The pictures do a better job of communicating the process, so here are the pictures.
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And I should have taken a picture of the whole batch of packed plugs to show the result. I will have to do that and edit this post to include that photo as well......
Pretty cool. Simple and effective, I may need to do this next year. Thanks.
Wow really inventive. Now I just need to get hops to grow here in Tex.
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Nice write up, man.
Basically the same concept and materials I used though I think the pipe clamp is a better idea than the C-clamps I used. I ended up breaking 2 of them in the process.
It did work out nicely and I really leaned on your ideas when I went to do it myself. That's what's great about this board. We can collaborate around the country, in this case, Utah to Washington, and make it work. If it needs a name, then I guess it becomes the Firecrab Hop Plugger? Like the BierMuncher Bottle Filler, it's a collection of lots of folks work improved on and written down, and has kind of a BierMuncher style to it as well.
I don't brew many hoppy beers, but I will brew an IPA in your honor soon because that is just simply a kick ass thread. I love the pics and the end result. Very straight forward.
We plan to buy my in-laws house sometime in the next couple years and I have plans for where the hop yard is going to go already. This thread will make for good inspiration come harvest.
Now, I hope you were brewing at the same time to soak some of those yellow lupulin coated white discs in the wort! Come on man!
High praise indeed. But, why? Why didn't I think of that? 
Haha, FireCrab... I like it!
FirePitBrew wrote:
Haha, FireCrab... I like it!
Sounds like a personal issue!
Haha I was actually thinking about that at work today. FireCrab sounds like it might be a spicy food, a crazy liquor or mixed drink, or a slang term for an STD.
FirePitBrew wrote:
Haha I was actually thinking about that at work today. FireCrab sounds like it might be a spicy food, a crazy liquor or mixed drink, or a slang term for an STD.
You could go with FireNut then. Oh wait, same problem!
That is a very cool way to do that. Just using the vac on them loose, kinda doesn't sit right, and I wonder if I got all the air out of them. Just used the last of my home grown hops today to dry hop. I hope to get enough to do 3 batches next year instead of just 1, ha ha.
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