kevin_smevin
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Thought i'd show you all my new hopback. Here are a couple of pics
Here's the hopback pulled apart. Its basically a 100mm cylinder with a tri-clover fitting on one end and a plate welded on the other end. At each end there is a 1/2" BSP socket welded. All welds are sanitary welds.
On the inside, about 1" from the bottom is some 2mm perforated stainless to act like a false bottom for the hop flowers to sit on
Here it is all set up. Simply a ball valve at the outlet and a t-piece at the inlet to let air escape while i'm filling it
Here it is filled with 90g dry cascade flowers
Here it is in action. I gravity fed the wort from the kettle into the hopback. Once it was full, i opened the outlet to prime the pump, turned the pump on. To the left of the picture (not shown) is my plate chiller and fermenter receiving nice cool hoppy wort.
Here are the spend flowers after i'm all done
Was very happy that it all worked well. First time i used it today and no issues. Brewed an AIPA. Hope the photos worked ok. Only shitty ones from my phone.
Here's the hopback pulled apart. Its basically a 100mm cylinder with a tri-clover fitting on one end and a plate welded on the other end. At each end there is a 1/2" BSP socket welded. All welds are sanitary welds.
On the inside, about 1" from the bottom is some 2mm perforated stainless to act like a false bottom for the hop flowers to sit on
Here it is all set up. Simply a ball valve at the outlet and a t-piece at the inlet to let air escape while i'm filling it
Here it is filled with 90g dry cascade flowers
Here it is in action. I gravity fed the wort from the kettle into the hopback. Once it was full, i opened the outlet to prime the pump, turned the pump on. To the left of the picture (not shown) is my plate chiller and fermenter receiving nice cool hoppy wort.
Here are the spend flowers after i'm all done
Was very happy that it all worked well. First time i used it today and no issues. Brewed an AIPA. Hope the photos worked ok. Only shitty ones from my phone.