beerbelly hopscreen

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beerbelly hopscreen

Postby SUBREW » Friday Aug 08, 2008 8:17 am

Hi Guys, I'm thinking of ordering one of these... what are they like when using hop pellets?
Do they keep the outflow clean enough to pass through a plate chiller?

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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby SUBREW » Friday Aug 08, 2008 8:35 am

Doh... search didn't pick it up the first time (or operator error probably!)

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drsmurto are you still 'happy as' with the screen???

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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby drsmurto » Friday Aug 08, 2008 9:36 am

Never been happier! It works a treat, especially for keeping hop debris out of the plate chiller.

Highly recommend all of beerbelly's shiny brewing stuff! :D

Make sure you order - DrSmurto's Golden Ale as well, $30 for grain, hops and yeast. 8)
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby James L » Friday Aug 08, 2008 10:11 am

I second that.... It is a bloody masterpiece... especially as DrS says if you have a plate chiller (which i have aswell).

I must admit that buying all the good stuff straight out has made brewing really enjoyable (more enjoyable that what i expected)...
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby drsmurto » Friday Aug 08, 2008 11:28 am

Agree, its made my brewing life very relaxed. Being useless with tools i didnt have a hope in hell in making anything for myself so meeting beerbelly pushed me into AG very quickly. Now that he is a one stop AG shop i am set.
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby PaulSteele » Friday Aug 08, 2008 3:58 pm

I went and visited Mr. Beerbelly recently to have a look at a few options for a full setup.

really good dude. really good shit. he knows his stuff and is happy to help with almost any problem or weird/wonderful design feature you want.

I look forward to getting him to build me my new brewery! I'm just working out the design for it now. Coming soon :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby SUBREW » Friday Aug 08, 2008 5:45 pm

Thanks Guys,

If its as good as you say I'm sold... hope the shiping to NZ isnt too steap (excuse pun :roll: )

Might just have to make a worthwhile purchase and get a plate chiller too.

I'm modeling my set up similar to some of you guys (2 Kegs - Rubermaid Chilly bin) I think so your previous posts have allready helped me out heaps...

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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby drsmurto » Monday Aug 11, 2008 11:22 am

Had a nice laugh thinking of you saying 'chilly bin' in your accent...... :lol:

Its helping me get thru a painful monday morning. :?
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby SUBREW » Monday Aug 11, 2008 6:30 pm

:) actually I have to force myself to call them 'Chilly Bins' or even 'Eskys' ... being British born I still often call them 'Ice Boxes' :shock: much to everyones amusement here.... then you get our American cousins calling them Coolers... nations divided by a common language hey?
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby Chris » Monday Aug 11, 2008 7:10 pm

It's better than judderbars.
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby Trough Lolly » Wednesday Aug 13, 2008 4:00 pm

...or jangles or jandles or whatever the hell they call thongs!
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby Chris » Wednesday Aug 13, 2008 4:36 pm

:lol: Jandles! Haven't heard that word since that Kiwi GF I had.
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby warra48 » Wednesday Aug 13, 2008 5:32 pm

Geez, I learnt to speak Unglush (English) in Aotearoa (New Zealand).
One of my brothers lives in Cambridge, so lay off the Kiwis and all them Kiwi jokes all you Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Ois.

I wore jandles in summer, jerseys in winter, and ate toasty pies (jaffles) for breakfast.

However, my wife is an Aussie, my kids are 50/50 Aussies, so there.
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby Chris » Wednesday Aug 13, 2008 9:00 pm

As the old Kiwi slogan goes...

Australia sux...

New Zealund nil.
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby drsmurto » Thursday Aug 14, 2008 9:56 am

Did i mention i like the beerbelly hopscreen...... :roll:
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby rwh » Thursday Aug 14, 2008 1:01 pm

warra48 wrote:However, my wife is an Aussie, my kids are 50/50 Aussies, so there.

I'm also a 50/50. Been getting over there quite a bit lately and love the place (and their beers are about 10 billion times better than ours). Hope to live there for a few years at some point if my meagre allocation of years allows.
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby Tipsy » Thursday Aug 14, 2008 1:28 pm

warra48 wrote:my kids are 50/50 Aussies, so there.


So which ones the Aussie? I'm assuming you have two :wink:
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby warra48 » Thursday Aug 14, 2008 2:42 pm

Tipsy wrote:
warra48 wrote:my kids are 50/50 Aussies, so there.


So which ones the Aussie? I'm assuming you have two :wink:


Mrs warra is an Aussie. I'm not an Aussie, nor a Kiwi. I'm actually a clogwog from Bussum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussum
This is a brewing program, and I don't intend to discuss genetics and ethnic issues on here.
As to which of the 2 offspring is which, that depends on who was on top at the relevant time, and I'm not telling.
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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby drtom » Thursday Aug 14, 2008 2:52 pm

Discussion of genetics is relevant, so long as it pertains to strains of yeast. :-)

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Re: beerbelly hopscreen

Postby Chris » Thursday Aug 14, 2008 2:56 pm

The first sensible thing written since Kiwis were mentioned, but I still think this was meant to be about hop screens :)
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