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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.

How did you get hops in the bottles? I never even get hops into secondary, and I don't even strain my hops at any stage.

Anyway, just go cheap. Stockings aren't dyed, they are made of coloured nylon/sythetic fibres.

whatever matches your eyes


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.

I will get cheapo's thanks guys.

I think its hops or maybe grain bits not sure,bottles still cloudy.

Cheers

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...

Cheers,
TL

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.

You recon? I've never boiled them before. Well, if you have to boil them to get the dye out, then I think they'll be fine in cool beer.

Then you gently pour the container's sweet liquor into your kettle

Am i the only one thats gettin turned on by that ???

NO

Now that you mention it... NO...

EDIT: Beaten to it by Damian.

lethaldog wrote:

Then you gently pour the container's sweet liquor into your kettle

Am i the only one thats gettin turned on by that ???

You're either a dedicated brewer, or a sick puppy Lethal!!

That was bad TL!

KEG wrote:whatever matches your eyes .

Now that's GOLD

I use black and have never had any probs Insert crude comment here <.....................................................>

i take it you're being kept in line by the missus then?

Are you sure they're long enough Boonie?

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).

I wonder how fishnets would work with whole hop flowers?

Better than with Alexander Downer.

they named im right