ManseMasher
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Excellent write up, thank you. I can't wait to try one for myself!
Just read back a few pages on this thread, and harrowbrewer's use of a hop bag might be the answer to the filter clogging. Think I'll give that a go next time.
I didn't get any clogging. Did you use hop pellets or leaf ? I used leaf.
How long were you re-circulating the wort through the chiller? From reading your report it sounds like you were re-circulating with the chiller running.
I just ran for 5 mins without the water running and then turned the water on and drained straight into FV without a problem. I thnk the longer you run the pump the more tightly packed the hops get around the filter.
I see on the website they now sell a different filter
A fair while, yes, but that seemed to be what the instructions said to do. Did you turn it off when you put the water on?
How did it continue draining without the pump running? Gravity?
With regards to the wort chiller slowing to a standstill I now remove the ball bearing and the spring from above the pump flow tap as small amounts of hops were catching on the spring and were slowing the wort flow, since I started doing that it's quick and easy to pump the wort straight out of the grainfather into the fermentation bucket at the exact temptpreture
Giving this another go with a rye pale. So far so much easier than the first one. I don't think I out enough mash water in first time which is why I got less wort at higher OG. This time I added more mash I water (there's no calculation for small batches, you have to guess it) and it looks much more like the wort in the video.
Got to start heating some sparge water in a mo. More to follow.
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