filter after dry hopping
hi,
I bottle condition everything at the moment.
recently ive given up on using stockings to hold hops in the boil, and want to dry hop without stockings as well, generally I use pellets
I have a spare benchtop water filter casing, and was thinking about stuffing it full of hop cones and using this as a filter.....and extra dry hop, to filter the beer when racking from fermentor to bottling bucket. im not sure gravity would be enough to push it through though and it would probably block
ive also thought about using a stocking to filter as the beer drains inside the bottling bucket, attached to pipe and kept below surface
any feedback or other suggestions appreciated!
cheers
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Permalink Reply by Smiffy on
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When I was bottling and dry hopping in the plastic fermenter bucket, the tap had a piece that fitted on it's inlet, which has a slot in it, which faces upwards, so that the flow into it doesn't disturb the yeast sediment. With dry-hopping, this would block easily. So I made a strainer out of stainless steel gauze in the form of a tube, about 70mm long and 15mm diameter, one end folded over, the other end epoxy glued into the piece that fitted into the tap. That worked fine.
When I switched to kegging, using a 1 micron water filter (which also filters out all of the yeast), and a conical fermenter, I found that if a significant amount of hop residue came out, the filter would get blocked, so to avoid that I have to drain off enough from the bottom outlet, so that the level of the hop sediment is below the side outlet. Then I need only about 1psi of CO2 pressure to keep a reasonable flow going, so doing it by gravity, you would need something like a 1 metre difference in height.
Hope that helps.
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