Hi,
We've been using the BrauKon HopGun for almost a year now and after a lot of trial and error we have a pretty solid process figured out. We've had quite a few issues with large clumps of undissolved hop pellet being wedged at the bottom of the hopgun after transferring back to FV, so have been trying to find a way to rectify this. The solution we have came up with has been pretty successful, but means that we are not using the hopgun in the way that it was originally intended. Our process at the minute is:
- Wait until beer reaches final gravity/passes diacetyl test, crash to 8c, dump/harvest yeast.
- Purge hopgun, fill halfway with beer under pressure.
- Depressurise hopgun, open lid and add hops under positive pressure, re-pressurise hopgun
- Allow hops to soak for 5 mins, then allow beer to fill hopgun.
- We then apply top pressure to the top of the hop gun to push the entire contents back into the FV. We repeat this step, filling and the pushing everything back into the FV, until we can see there are no hops left in the hopgun by looking through the bottom window.
- We then recirculate, out of the sample port midway up the FV and into the bottom of the cone, for 6 hrs.
- After 6 hrs, the beer is pushed back into the FV, crashed to -1c and carbed right away.
- Our typical brewlength is 25-37HL and we are dry-hopping at 8-20g/l depending on the product.
This method has been pretty successful, but is very time consuming and there is obviously a better way to use the hopgun. I've heard of a lot of other breweries having similar problems with hops clumping at the bottom of the hopgun, but cant really find much info on how to rectify this issue. I am therefore wondering if anyone else has had any similar issues and has found a solution that works for them?
Cheers
Craig
We've been using the BrauKon HopGun for almost a year now and after a lot of trial and error we have a pretty solid process figured out. We've had quite a few issues with large clumps of undissolved hop pellet being wedged at the bottom of the hopgun after transferring back to FV, so have been trying to find a way to rectify this. The solution we have came up with has been pretty successful, but means that we are not using the hopgun in the way that it was originally intended. Our process at the minute is:
- Wait until beer reaches final gravity/passes diacetyl test, crash to 8c, dump/harvest yeast.
- Purge hopgun, fill halfway with beer under pressure.
- Depressurise hopgun, open lid and add hops under positive pressure, re-pressurise hopgun
- Allow hops to soak for 5 mins, then allow beer to fill hopgun.
- We then apply top pressure to the top of the hop gun to push the entire contents back into the FV. We repeat this step, filling and the pushing everything back into the FV, until we can see there are no hops left in the hopgun by looking through the bottom window.
- We then recirculate, out of the sample port midway up the FV and into the bottom of the cone, for 6 hrs.
- After 6 hrs, the beer is pushed back into the FV, crashed to -1c and carbed right away.
- Our typical brewlength is 25-37HL and we are dry-hopping at 8-20g/l depending on the product.
This method has been pretty successful, but is very time consuming and there is obviously a better way to use the hopgun. I've heard of a lot of other breweries having similar problems with hops clumping at the bottom of the hopgun, but cant really find much info on how to rectify this issue. I am therefore wondering if anyone else has had any similar issues and has found a solution that works for them?
Cheers
Craig
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