Last weekend we finally got the chance to play with some of our new beer toys... Out of a combination of necessity and parsimony, our shiny, shiny home-made bazooka-screen was born:
This neat piece of equipment screws into the inside of our new brewing kettle (on the opposite side of the tap) and filters all the wort as it pours out, removing all the hops and stuff. This is especially important when using a plate chiller, as getting that blocked would be a big pain in the proceedings.
Here's a picture of the new kettle at work (the bazooka is already in place, of course):
And the plate-chiller in action.... It's a happy miracle of physics, the way boiling hot wort enters from up the stairs, and 20°C wort comes out the other side. It saved an immense amount of time and water, and is extra-awesome for working the same way as penguin feet.
2 comments:
Your post confuses me! What is bazooka about that metal thingy, I can see no similatities whatsoever with a Panzerfaust and since when do you use LPG bottles for brewing? Thumps up for applied penguin science, though!
The shiny thingie is called a bazooka screen - probably because it's a tubular filter rather than a flat one. Since we're boiling up larger volumes now, we can't do it on the stove top. Hence, the gas burner (it's actually a turkey deep-fryer) and gas bottles.
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