National Homebrew Club Ireland

New Stainless Supplier starting out across the water, those hop spiders look interesting
http://www.bridgewaterbrewing.co.uk/
On Jims they promised a 10% discount for your first order, simply use the code EB10 on checkout.

They're even cheaper than AliExpress!

Thanks John, Nice site that and very good prices!

Has anyone any experience with the pumps they are selling?

They are a new entrant to the market and pumps are Chinese, some initial positive results coming from those 12/24v supplied by Angelbrew and Homebrewbuilder

i'm not sure if i can post on here as myself - apologies if im treading on toes and pleases remove if i am

pumps are our biggest seller - and they are the high spec H version.

if its ok with the club im happy to send one over FOC for an unbiased review

Ivor

I've always been curious of those pumps, the price compared to chugger pumps is very enticing.

if i send one over perhaps it could be circulated ? no pun intended

chuggers are good but expensive in the uk

That sounds good, I don't have my setup ready for pumps yet but I'm sure there are others on the forum that would love to test them out.

Guys lets start an interested parties and swap every 2-3 weeks.
I can compare against a couple of Chuggers in series ;)
Then those that test can go into a draw
I'd like to test but no interest in pump

1. CH

I have ordered a hop spider from them, but I don't know if it's shipped yet. If it hasn't, maybe they could lump it in with it and send them together?

Just a thought if it helps at all...

How spider arrived. Looks to be a decent build, even fits over the edge of my keggle pretty well...

I used to use a bar across the diameter, keg spears work well!

Quote from: CH on January 26, 2016, 10:46:50 AM
I used to use a bar across the diameter, keg spears work well!

You mean to hold a hop bag off the spear? Was using my own up-to now but the 250g hop monsters weren't coming out great as there wasn't enough room. Also the bag is an utter pita to clean after a brew.
Edit: ah you mean hanging the spider off a bar across the diameter. That's a good idea. I can rig up a simple one if needed.

If you use the spear of a keg and pop your handles onto it no danger of it falling in

Quote from: CH on January 26, 2016, 10:44:34 PM
If you use the spear of a keg and pop your handles onto it no danger of it falling in

Until a moments inattention and you knock it in. Would like to be able to hang it off the edge of the kettle and also to have it go deeper in to bottom of the kettle to maximize the usable space exposed to boiling wort. Molc would be interested to hear what the circulation of the wort through the mesh is and as to how fine the screen is. Would hope/expect that whether using pellet or leaf hops it all be contained within the spider.

Shanna

I came up with a cunning idea last night of hanging it off the side directly over my small 2.4kw element, like the ones you have in a peco boiler. It causes the wort to roll directly above it, which should thoroughly agitate the hops for the length of the boil. It's the perfect height in that position too, stopping just mm's away from the element.

I think 300mm filtering can hold all pellet hop break but can clog with leaf. At least that's the theory online...

Anyway, hoping to rebrew an ipa next month where the hops were very muted. My working theory was my previous hop bag clumped the pellets together, so that will give it a great test. I'll even be able to do a taste of the two beers side by side :)

So i'm going to be whirlpooling in my new kettle once it's built so I could test it for that.

1. CH
2. dcalnan

Cool anyone else want to have a go as otherwise it just goes to dcalnan after testing

1. CH
2. dcalnan
3. Shanna

Would be interested to give it a go.

Anyone get ths pump yet, mine died today and was wondering if they are anygood?

Picked up one of these pumps.  Good quality pump, ran it for an hour. Couldnt see much difference between this and the topsflo ts5 which is double the price

Quote from: darren996 on March 01, 2016, 09:34:46 PM
Picked up one of these pumps.  Good quality pump, ran it for an hour. Couldnt see much difference between this and the topsflo ts5 which is double the price

Update on this pump, they clog very easily. Don't attempt to use one without a filter.

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I ordered a hop spider from them and it just randomly turned up! I contacted them first wondering if they had even sent it

Same as, it will just arrive, they don't do the customer notification or query thing very well