Ridebreck
Well-Known Member
Does anyone use a hop spider along with a whirlpool immersion chiller?
I did on my last brew. Worked pretty good. I'm more concerned with my apparent reduced utilization. I was using a combination of whole leaf and pellet hops and they ended up forming a big slug at the bottom of the bag. There wasn't much liquid flow through the bag, and my resultant utilization was a good deal lower. This was using a 5 gallon paint strainer bag.
I'm going to use all pellet hops on my next brew to see if the results are improved. Perhaps the combination of whole and pellet hops just isn't the best application for this device?