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Ran across these formed filters for straining biodiesel into 5 gallon buckets. Thought it might work nicely when I transfer/chill from my brew kettle into my 5 gallon bucket.
Anyone try/use these? Looks like they have several ranging from 75 to 600 microns. How many micro would be good for filtering out pellet hops?

http://www.amazon.com/Gallon-EZ-Straine ... s_indust_4

I would go with the 75 micron. The Morebeer "rough" filter element is 5-7 microns so I would go with the smallest size they have. While it may not clear out all the hop pellet residue, it should clean it up quite a bit.

Wayne

If you go too fine, the whole thing will likely just plug. They look like they would be stackable, might be able to stack successively finer mesh to catch the big chunks first, while still getting fairly fine...

Good info.
I think maybe I will just use a muslin bag for my hops and specailty grains next time around instead of trying to filter a soupy wort. Filtered a clump of pellet hop residue the size of a baseball last time. Pluged like crazy.

Thanks!

These look like a killer idea from keeping hop matter and break mat from your wort. They look like they will hold quite a bit as well.

This looks like a fantastic idea. I found a similar thread on the other brewing website.....

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/straine ... ts-128094/

Someone said they bought every size and the 400 micron worked , but later on in the thread someone said the 400 was very slow to drain. I'm thinking of getting the 100 and if needed I could get something finer later....after all , they are very cheap.

Just ordered the 100 micron and a 200 Micron from us plastics...about 14 bucks total with shipping.

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.a ... d=redirect

after rethinking this, I modified my order and got the 400 and 600 micron strainers.I think 200 micron is too fine.