Birdsnestbrewery
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By scrubby do you mean a metal washing up scourer?I have an online filter for bottling. A stainless fuel filter, with a scrubby insert. Brilliant.
Any chance of a picture or link to that filter?
By scrubby do you mean a metal washing up scourer?I have an online filter for bottling. A stainless fuel filter, with a scrubby insert. Brilliant.
I have a Grainfather. I wait until all the visible proteins and other stuff e,g the hot break, is no longer visible. Takes a few minutes no more than ten. Quicker if you use protofloc or Irish moss. I tend to sterilize the CFC by circulating the hot wort through it for a few minutes straight after the boil has finished then waiting for the hot break to fall out of suspension. Then I cool as I transfer to the fermenterAfter many many years using an inversion chiller, I moved to a CFC with the grainfather purchase a couple of years ago.
For those who use CFCs, how long do you wait after the end of the boil before transferring/cooling your wort (when not deliberately doing a hop stand)?
I used to chill immediately, but at this point there is still a bunch of hot break floating around due to residual convection currents that won't get filtered out during the transfer. How long do you leave it to settle (if at all) before transferring?
Looks nice although it says aluminium not stainless steel. Is it food safe?Here's the link,..
Billet aluminium 8 mm washable inline alloy fuel filter road race rally | eBay
Pic follows tomoz
Oh I agree, the idea was to remove the filter bit and use a scrubby like you did.I wouldn't buy that one, they clog. You don't what too much filtration.
That’s interesting. I’ve often throughly that even with small batch brewing maybe throttling the pump and transferring more slowly might help as it would prevent the suction effect and give things a bit more time to settle. I often wonder if the pump ‘sucking’ impairs the effectiveness of the false bottom.At the brewery where I work, we skim the foam off just before the boil starts. the copper empties from the bottom through slotted plates so the hops settle to form a filter bed which filters out most of the remaining hot-break. We have an in-line filter just upstream of a plate heat exchanger which traps hop particles and remaining hot break to try to protect the heat exchanger from clogging. The big difference between a 17 barrel batch and a home brew batch is the transfer time (11/2-2hrs vs 15-30mins) so the hops have time to settle out post-boil. if we don’t skim, the hot break tends to clog up the hop-bed resulting in slower transfer time and making the copper harder to clean afterwards.
It will. Letting it settle and then draining will give you a cleaner result.I often wonder if the pump ‘sucking’ impairs the effectiveness of the false bottom.
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