DIY Kettle Hop Filter - Brewing with Bobby M

You have to keep particulates from clogging your counterflow or plate chiller. Therefore, it's a good idea to keep hops and hot break inside the kettle when draining. The commercial solution is over $50 but the materials should cost less than $15. This is a time consuming, but satisfying do it yourself project.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• brewing
• homebrew
• hops
• filter
• kettle
• keggle
• plate
• chiller
• heat
• exchanger
• stainless
• mesh

[BobbyFromNJ]

I had trouble with a 10oz mix of leaf and pellet but other who have copied this design have had great success. I found out that I have a slight leak in my drain system so the pump was sucking air and losing siphon. I have to fix that before I know.

[mrokam]

When do I get to come over for a tasting session???

[BobbyFromNJ]

When I have some heavy lifting to do around here... or any other time.

[BobbyFromNJ]

Good catch. It's pretty common of me to make a goofy mistake like that when I'm trying not to say um, um, um ever 2 minutes. 1 square foot was what I meant to say and then I thought, hey, inches sounds better.

[vonneumann]

Dell keyboard is made by Dell.

[fishheadH2o]

so how did the 30x30 mesh work for the pellet hopps?

[im1dermike]

Great video. After creating a couple of these things, what would you say is the optimum mesh size?

[leosastronomy]

I came back to this video to see if you updated your comments after trying some pellets, do pellets clog the mesh?

[mgmatiasek]

So how does it work? I am interested in your design and plan to make one in the coming weeks. I noticed you found the first one you built to be too small a mesh size. Is the 30 30 mesh size big/small enough to do the job and be cleaned easily? thanks for your response.

[mrokam]

I see...so I'm just a strong back for hire! Seriously, let's all get together soon!