What ho!
I'm having problems with hop debris blocking my boiler as I drain down the finished wort into my fermenter.....
I have a mango chutney barrel boiler, with a 22-mm ball valve - on the spigot inside the boiler I have two elbows, in a sort of S-shape, which drop down then out again and onto that I have a 6inch length of 22mm copper pipe, crimped shut at the end. That's roughly parallel with the base of the boiler, give or take. There's at least an inch, probably two, of "dead" space beneath the tube.
That pipe has 2mm holes drilled all over it randomly, aside from the top-most "side" of that tube, as I was expecting the hops to sink and gather on that bit.
Anyway - cut a long story short - its a pain in the wotnot as any brew with decent amounts of hops end up with it getting clogged and draining annoyingly slowly or as tonight's brew proved, not at all. I repeatedly had to StarSan my arm and reach in to disconnect it.... shake it out...connect....repeat...repeat....repeat - it must have added an hour to the brewday.
All done in a sub-zero potting shed.
Anyway - what do others have on the end of their spigot...
Holes? Or slits....? i could cut some hacksaw blade slits in the underside?
Is there a good product out there that I can just fit onto the 22mm ballvalve spigot??
It's served me well this boiler so far, considering it cost about a tenner to knock up. So any tips on resolving this irritating issue much appreciated.
I'm having problems with hop debris blocking my boiler as I drain down the finished wort into my fermenter.....
I have a mango chutney barrel boiler, with a 22-mm ball valve - on the spigot inside the boiler I have two elbows, in a sort of S-shape, which drop down then out again and onto that I have a 6inch length of 22mm copper pipe, crimped shut at the end. That's roughly parallel with the base of the boiler, give or take. There's at least an inch, probably two, of "dead" space beneath the tube.
That pipe has 2mm holes drilled all over it randomly, aside from the top-most "side" of that tube, as I was expecting the hops to sink and gather on that bit.
Anyway - cut a long story short - its a pain in the wotnot as any brew with decent amounts of hops end up with it getting clogged and draining annoyingly slowly or as tonight's brew proved, not at all. I repeatedly had to StarSan my arm and reach in to disconnect it.... shake it out...connect....repeat...repeat....repeat - it must have added an hour to the brewday.
All done in a sub-zero potting shed.
Anyway - what do others have on the end of their spigot...
Holes? Or slits....? i could cut some hacksaw blade slits in the underside?
Is there a good product out there that I can just fit onto the 22mm ballvalve spigot??
It's served me well this boiler so far, considering it cost about a tenner to knock up. So any tips on resolving this irritating issue much appreciated.