Show Us Your Drained Boiler

[Tony]

BOOO pellets are for guinea pigs.

No Ute.... No Circlework!

 

[warrenlw63]

No Ute.... No Circlework!

:lol: Fair analogy.

Or in musical terms. Pellets are the bass and drums. Flowers and Plugs are the Lead guitar and singer.

This one is 50% pellets and 50% plugs. Don't ask me what type. This beer was a cupboard cleaner and actually contained nine (yep) individual hop varieties.

As long as the real stuff is still physically visible I'll permit the circle work.

Don't laugh I've got to drink the resultant beer.

Warren -

 

[technocat]

After I figured out that wasn't horse manure I got a horn.

Very funny I like it :lol:

 

[reVoxAHB]

Cute thread :wub:

I built this over the weekend:

Worked a treat:

I reckon I need to rethink the pickup arm positioning

wrapping it back as close to the valve as poss or just installing the ball directly to the valve coupling itself. That way, I could tip the vessle while still drawing off the outside.. probably left a good 2L behind (in addition to what the hops suck up).

I've been meaning to ask you guys who are using SS false bottoms and drawing from the bottom/center of vessle, are you not concered with break or trub? Or how are you dealing with it?

Cheers,
reVox

 

[warrenlw63]

Revox

Providing the false bottom is securely fastened no real break or trub gets through. Sits on the top of the bed of spent hop cones.

BTW... Love the money shot! B)

Warren -

 

[Peter Wadey]

Aww, awright Warren.

Here's a shot from a 23 litre batch of English IPA I did late last year.



Postmortem on the beer? Should have used the Fuggles when I 1st got them.
Will see if I can manage a pic of the beer sometime soon.

Pete

PS: Oops. No boiler in shot. Figured it was the flowers you were interested in anyway.

 

[Steve]

Bloody good idea Revox - nice one!
Cheers
Steve

 

[warrenlw63]

Aww, awright Warren.

Here's a shot from a 23 litre batch of English IPA I did late last year.

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Postmortem on the beer? Should have used the Fuggles when I 1st got them.
Will see if I can manage a pic of the beer sometime soon.

Pete

PS: Oops. No boiler in shot. Figured it was the flowers you were interested in anyway.

Awwrright!! Pete I'm taking that pic to the dunny. Think you're our current winner.

Warren -

 

[SJW]

Yep Revox I like that idea mate. Although I just have a bit of copper pipe bent 180 deg and pointing down a bit and it leaves about 1 litres behind. But that looks good.

Steve

 

[tangent]

DrGonzo uses the same setup but made his strainer out of a bit of splatterguard frypan thing. I think the idea is, if it gets clogged he can knock it off the tube.

 

[devo]

NZ green bullets and goldings.

 

[Simon W]

Hmmm, nice one reVox, maybe it could be improved if you remove the bottom half of the strainer, and push the flat part against the kettle floor, draining from the top with a setup like in Tony's pics?

Could get the pick-up right down near the floor with that.

Edit: rough sketch.

 

[warrenlw63]

NZ green bullets and goldings.

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:wub: Thought Coburg smelled great the other day. B)

Warren -

 

[geoffi]

Here's my drained boiler from last weekend's Schwarzbier, with 120g Tettnanger and Hallertauer. (Pic posted on another thread.)

Had a litre or so of wastage with this one. (Pick-up tube got clogged with hops.) It was a 34 litre batch, so I'm not too worried about it.

 

[devo]

Here is another one for you warren. A nice combination of Chinook and Horizon pellets with US Cascade plugs thrown in for good measure.

 

[reVoxAHB]

Hmmm, nice one reVox, maybe it could be improved if you remove the bottom half of the strainer, and push the flat part against the kettle floor, draining from the top with a setup like in Tony's pics?

Could get the pick-up right down near the floor with that.

Hey, thanks all for the nice feedback on the pickup screen. Cheers Simon on the rough sketch/idea. I've been mulling around which way to modify it, and I reckon that's a great idea! I'll snap a few photos after the next mod/brew day.

Thanks Warren for the feedback re: trub/break.

reVox

 

[Peter Wadey]

Awwrright!! Pete I'm taking that pic to the dunny. Think you're our current winner.

Warren -

I've been cleaning the cupboard too.
Yesterday's effort - 11 plugs (and 155g of pellets) for 23 litres of English Style IPA.



Hop shortage? What hop shortage?

Pete

 

[devo]

"Yesterday's effort - 11 plugs (and 155g of pellets) for 23 litres of English Style IPA."

JEBUS that's a lot of hops!!

 

[Kai]

Here's tonight's brew. 3 goldings plugs in an english brown ale. Beerbelly hop stopper is hiding somewhere under that mound to the left, the ugly mug with the phone camera is reflected in around 1-200mL of wort.

 

[Lukes]

Had a Southern Cross smelling neighborhood on Saturday Morning.
90 grams in the bottom of the boiler. No false bottom just a big bit of stainless steel wool clamped around tube.
Did no loose much to the hops and the last couple of liters went into a milk container.
Magic hops and will be using these again.