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Did a Timothy Taylor Landlord on Sunday. All went well but had two issues

1) Some idiot knocked the hydrometer over and now its in bit in the bin!
2) Although I did a whirlpool and left it to stand for 15mins, the pump filter & the spring/ball in the security outlet really got clogged up and I had to keep taking the end off and clearing the spring. In the end it just stopped pumping and I was about 1.5 ltrs short

So will have to buy another hydrometer and I may try a hop spider for the nest brew??
 
Did a Timothy Taylor Landlord on Sunday. All went well but had two issues

1) Some idiot knocked the hydrometer over and now its in bit in the bin!
2) Although I did a whirlpool and left it to stand for 15mins, the pump filter & the spring/ball in the security outlet really got clogged up and I had to keep taking the end off and clearing the spring. In the end it just stopped pumping and I was about 1.5 ltrs short

So will have to buy another hydrometer and I may try a hop spider for the nest brew??
1. You won't be the first, you won' be the last either.
2. Odd, as Landlord shouldn't have a huge amount of hops. For a standard ale, I find that the simple hop filter on the pump inlet does a good enough job of filtering out the hops (even the pellet mush you get) without it clogging in the pipe. For >75g of hops in the kettle, I'll always use a hop spider. That should happily solve your clogging issues.
 
1. You won't be the first, you won' be the last either.
2. Odd, as Landlord shouldn't have a huge amount of hops. For a standard ale, I find that the simple hop filter on the pump inlet does a good enough job of filtering out the hops (even the pellet mush you get) without it clogging in the pipe. For >75g of hops in the kettle, I'll always use a hop spider. That should happily solve your clogging issues.
When I bought a pump I also bought an inline filter. However I found that it clogged very quickly so I use the pump without it now.
If I am using whole hops in the boil I use a mesh "bazooka" filter to avoid clogging the pump.
But when using pellets I remove that because the debris is fine enough not to clog the pump, but would completely block the bazooka.
 
1. You won't be the first, you won' be the last either.
2. Odd, as Landlord shouldn't have a huge amount of hops. For a standard ale, I find that the simple hop filter on the pump inlet does a good enough job of filtering out the hops (even the pellet mush you get) without it clogging in the pipe. For >75g of hops in the kettle, I'll always use a hop spider. That should happily solve your clogging issues.

it had 100g of hops...30g East Kent Goldings & 30g Styrian Celeia @90, 20g Styrian Celeia @10 & 20g Styrian Celeia at 0. So should have used a hop spider?
 
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