First I love hops and not sure you can over hop. Of course this is style
dependent.

One of the things I did to reduce the trash from flowing into my fermenter
is I went to the grocery store and in the cleaner section found a copper
scrubby. Tied it to the end of my siphon hose. Since the hose cannot
handle boiling, I soak it in iodophor to sanitize. Works great when you
have leaf hops. But less so for pellets. So I went to using a hop bag.
Home made one with a large volume. 4" wide and reaches from top to bottom
of my boil pot.

You can do this with pellets put not with leaf hops, the leaf hops must roll
in the boil. Greatly reduces the trash in my wort and of course no hops
transfer to the fermenter.

Frank
ATF Home Brew Club
New Bern NC



"ChasM" <chasmill@70@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cferc0$jo2$1@news.astound.net...[color=blue]
> I have had a heck of a time with hops, and was hoping someone here could
> lend me a hand. I have been overhopping my beers, and think I finally
> figured out why. I have been adding pellet hops to my specialty grain
> brews, but haven't been filtering the wort, so the hops sits in the beer
> while it ferments. I finally read somewhere that you are to filter the
> wort? I tried it on a batch of brown ale tonight, and the filter got so
> clogged with hops that it would have had to sit forever, thereby causing
> immense contamination dangers (which I may have done anyway...only time[/color]
will[color=blue]
> tell). Can anyone tell me how you do it? I'd be very grateful. I love
> hops, but I have had a batch or two that have taken a LONG time to settle[/color]
in[color=blue]
> the bottle. Thanks a lot!
>
> My email is correct, minus the obvious extra @. Thanks again!
>
> ChasM
>
>[/color]