Hop Gun or Hop Rocket is common used at brewery. It’s used to filter the fresh hops or hop particles for beer in beer fermentation tank. The craft beer will take away the aroma of hops and then back to beer fermenter. The brewers will have a different flavour beers. Tiantai beer equipment provides a professional hop gun for your microbrewery, brewpub. Let’s share more operations about hop gun.
Step 1: Open the lid, adding hops
Step 2: Connect the diaphram pump with fermenter drainage port by brewery wort hose - Connect beer outlet port in hop gun with sample valve in beer fermentor - Press beer from beer fermenter enter into hop gun - Mix the beer with hops together - Back to beer fermentation tank - Finished.
When you use the hop gun, the compressed air pressure is about 3-4 bar; the fermenter pressure is about 1.2-1.4 bar.
Some questions from Tiantai customer, hope it is useful for you:
1.After adding the hops, should I had some pression in the hopgun with CO2 ( to remove oxygen?).
Tiantai : Yes.
2.Once the fermenter port is one and the beer is entering into the hop gun.
Should I quickly turn on the pump to mix the hops with the wort?
Tiantai: It’s not necessary to turn it very quickly, just do it normally.
3.From the pump to the hop gun tank there is 2 ports (top and bottom).
They should be both open when the wort is entering in the hop gun or should I open the bottom one first and the top one after.
Tiantai: You should open the bottom port firstly and then open the top port.
4.I would like to have the best way to mix the hops with the wort to try to avoid to block the filter .
Tiantai: The above operation couldn’t ensure to avoid to block the filter.
The better way is to add one three T at the beer out pipe to connect CO2 pipe.
After used 2~3minutes, open the CO2 pipe to against the hops to avoid to block the filer.
To be honest, the operation is a bit more cumbersome, but this is the best way at present.
If you still have any questions about hop gun or other beer equipment, please feel free to ask us.
We warmly welcome your proposal! Tiantai beer equipment is a professional manufacturer of beer brewing system in China, we can provide you the whole complete brewery system.
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