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you'll probably find that the hop bits will flocculate out and embed themselves in the yeast at the bottom over time - a careful pour should leave everything behind.
2fast wrote:I used a kitchen strainer last brew but,I can see hops floating in some of the bottles when I move them, so will need some careful pouring.
Next brew I'm going to use stockings whats the best colour to use?
Don't want dye and stuff coming out of them.
A trick that may help is to sparge your grains into a container with the kitchen strainer as you do now. Then you gently pour the container's sweet liquor into your kettle / stock pot / boiler through the stockings - the particles (possibly grain particles - hence the haze) will hopefully get trapped in the foot of the stockings and the fine mesh will help strain the wort before you boil it and hopefully end up with clearer beer. Granted it's an extra step but it should do the trick until you get a mashtun and false bottom setup...
Chris wrote:Anyway, just go cheap. Stockings aren't dyed, they are made of coloured nylon/sythetic fibres.
I only use stocking when making cider, but I always boil them for 5 minutes before use. The colour of the water after 5 minutes boiling tells me there is some sort of dye used in making stockings.
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stockings are definately dyed. trust me - i had a batch turn black from not pre=boling a pair. the ones to get are the natural/tan colour, they're nt treated (according to the missus).
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