$60
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f41/jaybird ... ost2510808
Here is the description by the guy who designed it:
The reason I'm selling it is because I'm using a march pump and recirculating during chilling, and the hop stopper doesn't like it. It's designed to be whirl-pooled manually, then pumped off afterward.Ok here is the Whirlpool hop stopper!
How this work is, it connects to your coupling in the kettle with a 90* street elbow to a compression fitting and a stainless dip tube that curves into the bottom under the bowl. I have wrapped the bottom of the heave duty stainless bowl with my False bottom material. The dip tube goes into a 24" stainless braid that is held secure with removable pins. In the bowl there is a drain into the kettle and on the side there is a small wing that assists in the directing of the hop cone to the center of the kettle and above the drain hardware.
The cone is formed, and then as the kettle is drained so is the bowl. The hops end up on the side of the kettle but won’t get there till the braid has filtered the mass of the hops and the kettle is drained.
I was able to drain my boil kettle at full flow through a 30 plate chiller and from start to finish once all was said and done I had a very thin (see through) layer of hop debris on the bottom of my glass carboy in the morning. I waited to pitch so I could see what got through and was in suspension.
