5 Gallon Paint Strainer as a hop filter in the Brew Keggle

11/25/2015

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?

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11/29/2015 06:07:12 am

The first brew with the hop filter was great from a functionality standpoint. It was exceedingly easy to add the hops at the right intervals, and the hop filter seemed to contain almost all of the hop sediment (I used hop pellets and was concerned that the powder would be too fine and go right through the paint strainer material). It didn't, the bag appeared to have all the hops in it, which made clean-up a breeze. I was brewing an IPA with lots of hops in it.

In the end, the remaining question is how well the hops saturated into the beer during the boil, and that question will have to wait for now. The beer should be ready in a few weeks and I will let you know how it tastes.

5 Gallon Paint Strainer as a hop filter in the Brew Keggle

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