Boiling kettle - will hops clog up the bazooka tube?

[welly2]

Finished building my boiling kettle which has a 12" bazooka tube in it. A mate of mine suggested if I use hop flowers (and probably hop pellets too), I need to be careful of hops clogging up the bazooka tube and having a problem getting the wort out of my boiler. Is this something I need to be concerned about or should it be alright?

 

[koolkuna]

Will the bazooka tube be fine enough to filter trub and hop pellets ? I was thinking of doing the same thing

 

[gilligan_87]

I'm still toying with my set up, but what I found was that pellet hops clogged the screen to the point where I needed to scrap it clear with a spoon to get wort the flow through. Flowers worked brilliantly as it acted as a filter bed for break material (was no-chilling at the time).

 

[pat_00]

Bad idea, I had major issues with one of these in a 98l kettle.

It would block up bad.

 

[wildburkey]

Maybe over kill but I recirculate with a whirl pool during chilling in a 73L pot, the bazooka works great in conjunction with the hop spider. I pointed my bazooka off to the side of the kettle using an L shaped connection and hardly found a scrap of boil/ flameout hops in a ferment since adopting this process; the hop spider or a hop sock and whirlpool alone would prob work just fine however.
I should mention I have a pretty high kettle loss by not using a dip tube but I'm just countering for it atm.

 

[Lethaldog]

Sorry to bring up an old thread but how do you guys ( that have them) find hop spiders, do you get the same sort of results from your hops in the boil compared to throwing them straight in?

 

[fdsaasdf]

Sorry to bring up an old thread but how do you guys ( that have them) find hop spiders, do you get the same sort of results from your hops in the boil compared to throwing them straight in?

I suggest you read this thread http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/79361-stainless-hop-spider/ lots of discussion there

 

[malt junkie]

Or just copy blichmans original pick up, bazooka, with L shaped stainless across the front and top, you should then be good for 100l boil.

 

[fungrel]

While this FAQ is only for beginners, there is a website that is fairly well know in the brewing community. For information on more advanced techniques, please have a look at www.howtobrew.com. It is an excellent resource!

Short answer is yes, I get identical results.

I dont bother bagging or using a spider for flowers, good whirlpool does the job. I have more issues with pellets.