Syphoning With Lots of Hop Debris

[foxy]

I use this helix to filter the boiled wort hop pellets thrown directly into the boil.

Final runnings from the kettle

 

[Graz]

Finally I've listened to all the advice given and transferred my Young's AIPA into the bottling bucket last night with no dramas

Cold crashed for 24 hrs during which I gave it a few taps to encourage the hop debris off the top of the beer, fridge got it down to about 1°C and I could see a nicely compacted layer of hop material on the bottom. Siphoned out using one of these (eBay siphon filter):

No clogging, all of the beer into the bottling bucket, result!

Only annoyance was discovering one of the bottles I'd used had a damaged neck when I came to cap it so not wanting to risk drinking broken glass I chucked it. I hate throwing away any beer

Many years of brewing but still learning... :tinhat:

 

[Cwrw666]

Only annoyance was discovering one of the bottles I'd used had a damaged neck when I came to cap it so not wanting to risk drinking broken glass I chucked it. I hate throwing away any beer

I have on occasion broken the lip of a bottle when popping the cap off. Rather than throw away the contents I've filtered it through a coffee filter. Not died yet...

 

[Graz]

I have on occasion broken the lip of a bottle when popping the cap off. Rather than throw away the contents I've filtered it through a coffee filter. Not died yet...

I read you could do that whilst Googling in desperation to save it Only problem being it was late, I had no clue if we had any coffee filters anywhere, and I wanted to go to bed. In retrospect I should have lobbed it in another bottle anyway, marked it and dealt with it later.