About 4 brews ago gave up on using my kk hop spider for its intended purpose after it clogged to a point it wasted all my late hops on an IPA. I'm now using it after whirlpooling to filter the wort into the fermenter. Very happy with the results so far looks to help aeration as well running the...
Ill start by saying I'm fairly new to all grain but have the same Robobrew and have had similar issues.
How much grain did you have in there? What temp was your sparge water? I've noticed my sparge slows down in proportion to how much grain I put in there goes at a good rate at around 4.5kg but...
How did this go? I've been thinking about trying the same thing. It gets blocked during the boil on hoppier beers and I usually end up chucking my flame out hops in loose to save them being wasted.