Show Us Your Drained Boiler

[warrenlw63]

Oh, no. This is actually referred to as "The Warren" method and has been adopted by many a brewer. No doomsday'ers. Warren talks about it on page 1 of this thread, and elsewhere in the forums.

reVox

:lol: I've no right to lay the original claim there reVox... I shamelessly swiped it off an American forum like most other original methods here. h34r:

The genesis for my idea was from the Sabco kettles.

Warren -

 

[THE DRUNK ARAB]

22 grams of Southern Cross used yesterday in a CAP!

C&B
TDA

 

[devo]

The Stout I did on the weekend using only NZ Southern Cross flowers.

 

[THE DRUNK ARAB]

The Stout I did on the weekend using only NZ Southern Cross flowers.

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Red Stout devo? :blink:

 

[warrenlw63]

Red Stout devo? :blink:

I think that's the blood from Devo's knuckles from punching his badly-behaving FB. :lol:

Warren -

 

[devo]

yes, something like that

...or a failed to enable the red eye reduction on the camera.

 

[schooey]

60g Williamette and 45g of EKG flowers in 30L of Chocolate Porter. I didn't spill this one... <_<

 

[Lukes]

08 Harvest Ale with 300 odd grams for 50 ltrs
Nugget cones for bittering and backyard Cluster cones for FWH & the late editions.

- Luke

 

[Prawned]

Used flowers for the first time tonight, decided to give Devo's GB ale a crack

Had a little accided at the start (its hard work brewing alone with a fridge full of piss)

 

[schooey]

Break forming around the chiller coil @ ~23C



.. and filtered perfectly by 180g NS flowers.

 

[Peter Wadey]

Schooey,
Those chiller snap fittings in the boiler are a disaster waiting to happen.

Rgds,
Peter

 

[devo]

One drawback that I have found with using hop flowers is that they tend to hold and retain more wort in the kettle resulting in less wort going into the fermenter/cube.

 

[schooey]

Schooey,
Those chiller snap fittings in the boiler are a disaster waiting to happen.

Rgds,
Peter

Yeah Pete, I've had one blow off the outlet side due to the hot water, but I hang them over the side when using it. When I took the pic, it was turned off and I'd moved it a bit.

Eventually when i get my rig built, I will plumb the chiller coil in hard by welding two nipples through the kettle wall, with a QD on the outside.

 

[Goose]

 

[razz]

That's a decent mesh basket there Goose, even has clips on the side. What's it from ?

 

[pokolbinguy]

That mesh basket is a great idea!!!

 

[Tony]

Bulk Buy ?

:super:

 

[Goose]

G'day chaps.

here's a couple of extra pics. Its a s/s basket with perforations pretty much the same diameter as you find in most commercially available false bottoms. It has a lid that clips on, and I suppose that could be useful if you wanted to immerse the whole thing during the boil. But I find it sits nicely on the bottom of the boiler, so that later additions of hops are very easy. Its actually used for commercial soup making..called a "soup basket" accordingly ...

with lid ajar:

with lid on:

and in action (apologies for pic quality, flash unit stuffed...)

 

[devo]

I made a similar but smaller variant out of a billy tin that I picked up from an army disposals and drilled with small holes. I tend to only use it for dry hopping rather than in the boil.

 

[pokolbinguy]

Any idea what they are worth to buy Goose?