All good stuff here blatz…
1) Without a spider I have tried draining the BK into my bottling bucket with a huge straining bag in it. Then I drain that into a carboy. It still let’s the break through so anymore I just use the spider and let the break and whatever hops get by it into my carboy. I don’t own a conical, but I did just get a ported BB to try out the racking adapter. So I could give that a try. Not quite the same as that nice cone on your conical though!!! Hmmmmmmm. What do you think I could screw up with that?
- I just picked one of those up to try. I am switching over to a cf chiller so on the brews I don’t whirlpool I can give that a shot. I’ll try to post what I think of it…
Yes, Tasty does something like after his cf chiller he has the hop rocket with a bagged rice hull filter in it. He then uses his pump to pull the wort through them. I think ultimately this thought process will be what I end up doing. But like you said, it’s just more stuff to connect and fuss with, and clean…