- Hop Filter – I decided to try something different here. There are some pretty cool products out on the market involving stainless steel mesh and capsules. My brew keggle is a slightly different configuration since I used a 2” tri-clover adapter from BrewHardware.com to turn the Sanke keg upside down and drain everything out the bottom. The conventional solutions were going to be a little complex, and I was concerned that these types of solutions would complicate the cleaning process…so I chose to try something I read about on several homebrewer blogs – using a 5 gallon paint strainer around a frame so that the hops can circulate freely in the boiling wort. At this point, you have to consider this experimental…but I plan to post the results of my first brew with this configuration right away. I am debating if I should run the wort back through this filter after cycling through the chiller plate to remove some portion of the cold break, but may save that for a subsequent brewing session. Can anyone think of reasons why this is a bad idea? Have you tried something similar?