Wondering how to maximize hop flavor? Add hops freely to the kettle! Let me show you how to do that without clogging your system!
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0:00 Intro and welcome
0:28 Why ditch the hop spider?
2:46 How to add hops freely without clogging
5:50 Caveats to this method
7:01 My valve structure
8:03 Other ways to maximize hop flavor
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Have you tried using the grain basket as a giant hop spider? Curious of the results.
That’s kinda what I do but with a regular bag, I keep it down with the chiller and have all the surface area of the wort basically. I end up catching a lot of the cold break like this also and it’s definitely made my beers clearer with a larger yield also by having less trub.
I’ve tried using the basket a few times before but unfortunately they’ve all been failures. The wort tends to not want to pass through the mesh and its worse than using the hop spider, once my pump ran dry because there was no liquid underneath the basket.
I did that in my Grainfather once and it failed miserably. The boiling knocked loose the bottom plate and the hops went everywhere almost immediately. After that a lot of hop debris clinged on to outside of the grain basked so as the liquid volume got lower due to boil off those hops weren’t actually in the wort at all.
@@TheApartmentBrewer I have a custom made mash paddle. Pop it in a cordless drill and it spins wort as well at crazy speeds. Piles up junk in the kettle very well.
So if I’m understanding this correctly at the end of the boil:
1 Turn off heater power ( I don’t think you explicitly said)
2 Set flow to whirlpool arm
3 Turn on pump for 3 minutes
4 Turn off pump for 15 minutes
5 Change flow to plate chiller
6 Continue as normal
So for immersion chiller you just sanitize it at the beginning of the boil? If you leave the immersion chill in during the whirlpool I’m guessing this won’t work?
Correct – but you can leave the immersion coil in. Shouldn’t be an issue as its circular
I used to use various hop spiders and found that they are more trouble than they’re worth. Plus you lose some hop/flavor aroma as per this video. I ditched the hop spider(s) and just throw the boil hops in now unhindered. I also do not hop a great deal for flavor or aroma during the boil but add most of that during the flame out/whirlpool if the recipe calls for a fair amount of hops. For aroma in ipa’s etc who can add hops during the fermentation or post fermentation (dry hop).
I always boil without a hop spider but then pump the wort from my brewzilla through a hop spider into my fermenter. Then I get no hops into my fermenter.
You can actually stir it up for a strong whirlpool, and it won’t be 10 minutes when you’re good to go, and you won’t need fancy valves and things to remember.