Ultimate Hop Spider: 300 Micron Mesh Stainless Steel Filter & Strainer for Home Beer Brewing Kettle Review

Diameter makes it easy to add hops. The length is a bit too big for my teapot, but I plan to lengthen it anyway. Others should definitely measure the depth of their kettle (if it's all the way down in the kettle you'll be scrubbing burnt things for a while). ) Easy cleaning. Well, that doesn't mean it's easy to clean. That's 300 microns!

No more over-stirring the wort during cooking and no more tedious attempts to empty the muslin bag. This product allows hops to mix into your beer without leaving excessive hop residue at the bottom of the fermenter. It also makes it easy to dispose of used hops and what's left is flushed out in seconds. A very nice update that makes my brew day so much more enjoyable.

Well constructed but not ideal for under 15 gallon saucepans and under 10 gallon batches in a 15 gallon pot. In small pots, it needs to stay on the bottom to keep the hops in the wort. You may not get the full hop yield in larger, smaller volume pots. With huge curtains of hops, skip Whirflok or Irish Moss. This will clutter the screen and you'll end up with a full spider that won't expire. Lost nearly a gallon of beer as a result. If the flaws bother you, everything else is great.

This machine is a brewer's dream. I can store any mash at precise temperatures for long periods of time and clean grain particles from the sous vide. If you brew beer, you know exactly what I mean. If you're hopping you can change the setting and leave the hops in the machine whole instead of the wort to keep things clean as you transition to fermentation. Haven't tried results with this device yet (it takes 2-4 months) but I've brewed over 100 batches and am already in love with this thing.

I have a 16 gallon stove that I use for 10 gallon batches. I added 10 ounces of hops and some sweet orange peel and it worked like clockwork. Didn't overflow because the top is next to the top of the pot. Due to the depth, it can also work with smaller batches. This is important for large additions of hops! The two anchor points at the top also make a big difference. The ones that only have one chute and can send your hops back into the wort during boiling. The screen is perfect for not missing

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