Comment on Crafty ideas to spin a 'whirlpool' needed
plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
You don’t need to stir it continuously!
Use hand stirrer (I have big wooden spoon for commercial kitchens), stir it for a minute (unti you see vortex forming), let it sit for ~5 minutes and then open the tap (at this point it wouldn’t be whirling around that much). You really need to let it sit to make the “hop cake” at the bottom of your kettle.
It works the same in commercial brewing settups. Just the times are longer and it is stirred by some pump.
So you don’t need anything special, I have basically the same settup as you and do it that way for 5+ years and it doesn’t need to be “hands-free solution”.
tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
This comment right here, Santa Claus :D
Thanks a ton! Makes perfect sense, this is what I will be doing from here on.
To pay it back a bit - I have a trick that reduces the hops gunk a great deal already. Couldn’t find a pic of the product itself, but I put hop pellets in large tea infusion bags. The pic there at least shows the size. Clip the end shut with something, maybe put a glass or steel ball in there for weight if you need them to sink. I just let them float, the boil will roll them around. One bag takes only 15 - 20 g of hop pellets due to swelling, so there will be several bags in the kettle.
plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
If you do it right, you don’t need to use those. In my experience straining it through something like this bag (I use bag for dry hopping or diaper) is enough. You just have to let it drain slowly to not disturb the “hop cake”.