A Perfect Brew Day

[Airgead]

• Lovely fine day - check
• Beautiful starter of Wyeast 3068 - check
• Cracked grains for a Heffe - check
• First ever three rest infusion (glucanase, protein, sacc) working to perfection- check
• Good rolling boil - check
• Some lovely tetnang plugs from Ross - check
• Bloody whole hop flowers from tetnang plugs clogging pickup tube - *sigh* check
• Double bloody hop flowers clogging siphon tube - check
• Me pulling wort out of kettle with hastily sanitised jug - *groan* check
• An inch of hop flowers and crud floating in my fermenter - check.

Oh well. Nearly a perfect brew day.

And the beer is tasting fantastic. Is it wrong to be deeply in love with WY3068?

 

[Goofinder]

Ahh.... been there, done that, got the beerbelly hopscreen as a souvenir! :icon_cheers:

 

[Fents]

Ahh.... been there, done that, got the beerbelly hopscreen as a souvenir! :icon_cheers:

QUOTE OF THE YEAR! :lol:

250G's + of hop pellets used in a 65L batch just this weekend with a beerbelly hopscreen....most crystal clear wort ive ever seen.

 

[Ronin]

Is it wrong to be deeply in love with WY3068?

I don't think that's wrong at all... :icon_cheers:

 

[T.D.]

I recently had the same trouble with some of my home grown hops. Clogged the outlet, then also clogged the racking hose that I was syphoning with (while simultaneously burning the crap out of my hands!). Reaffirmed my previous decision to stick with pellets! Although I recently got some great hop bags with a nice open wieve. Perfect for flowers so I'll be using these in the future! That beerbelly hopscreen does sound pretty cool though...

 

[James L]

Never had a problem with the BB hopscreen.. money well spent.. pity i cant say the same about my mash tun....

 

[Fents]

Never had a problem with the BB hopscreen.. money well spent.. pity i cant say the same about my mash tun....

OT:

whats wrong with your mash tun?

 

[James L]

I'm loosing too much heat... i have now insulated the headspace with high desity foam (as the esky lid didnt have any insulation), but its still dropping a couple of degrees over an hour.. i think my problem is there is too much surface area. I have one of those 47L coleman wide base eskies (simply because it had the flattest base) but i might have to look into getting a deeper but narrower esky (maybe one of those round rubbermaid bastards).

the BB false bottom however is great... never had a stuck sparge..

 

[Bribie G]

It's the coarser mesh one and I tell you what those hops get a good poundin' in the boil. Nothing woosie about a hop bag IMHO

 

[Airgead]

I recently had the same trouble with some of my home grown hops. Clogged the outlet, then also clogged the racking hose that I was syphoning with (while simultaneously burning the crap out of my hands!). Reaffirmed my previous decision to stick with pellets!

This was my problem - My system is all set up for pellet hops. Pickup tube off to the side of the kettle, a quick whirlpool to settle the crud and crystal clear wort into the fermenter. Never used whole flowers or plugs before...

Still. I shall know better next time.

Cheers
Dave