On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:25:00PM +0200, Heikki Levanto wrote: > One way is to take a small pot, tie a string to its handle, and immerse > it in the boiling wort for the last 5-10 minutes. That ought to kill > anything that lives on it. Let it stay in the pot while it cools down > (assuming you cool a whole potfull at a time). Carefully extract the pot > by pulling the string (which you have remembered to tie to the handle of > the big pot!), and use it to transport the wort into your fermenter. The > last part you can probably manage to pur directly. > > To be honest, I have not tried this method, I just improvised it while I > was supposed to be working... But I have boiled a metal strainer in my > wort for separating the hops and hot/cold break, and that worked fine.
I like that idea! Any idea how the pot will affect the hop extraction?! For the humour-impaired: this was a joke!
