you and every other man in the world lol

Ok, on to the first project. I won't get the other project done until tomorrow, I don't feel like going to Home Depot to get what I need.

Necessity is the mother of invention. In my case, burned hands and laziness is the mother of invention. When I boil my wort, I use a drawstring hop bag and pull it out and open it to add more hops. It burns my hands and is just retarded. I was browsing another homebrew site and found something called a hop spider. I modified it to be what you see below.





It's just a 4" aluminum duct, 1 gal paint strainer bag, 4" worm clamp and 2 stainless steel S hooks. Cost me about $10. Sits on the edge of the pot during the boil and I just dump the hops in as needed. My next brew is just a Mr. Beer batch but I'll update after I actually use this thing. Other people seem to love it, I think I will too!!

Next project to come tomorrow.

Where are the hot redheaded robots!? We were promised robots!

nice! and jon, i'd rather see redheads than robots...

I plan on boiling this for 30 mins or so with no hops just to make sure it works and nothing leaches anything into the water. Everything on there should be brew safe.

Dude, there are better uses for hot redheads than boiling them!

Don't mind him; he's just jealous It's a cool setup!

I agree. Good idea :-).

But we want to see red headed twins with BIG jugs !!!

Nice project... I've make a couple of hop spiders for my 5 gallon AG batches. This one looks great for a Mr Beer size batch.

and now project #2. I do BiaB and mash in my brew kettle. I have been wrapping a towel around the kettle and using a chip clip to hold it closed but I thought there had to be a better way. Looked around and found some bubble insulation people have used with good results. I wanted it to be removable so I bought a tool belt and use that to hold it on. 4 layers on the pot, 2 on the lid. Most people report losing 1 degree or so over an hour. Looking forward to my next AG brew so I can use this and my hop spider!!