I felt as if my hops weren’t getting saturated enough in bags. When I tried the no bag approach I either had stuck filters or a lot of hop matter in the fermenter. So after a bit of research, I made a hop spider primarily based on the thread at homebrewtalk.com.

It was about the easiest DIY brew project to do and cheap too. Its been great handling the trub and I no longer have to worry about cleaning out several muslin sacks. I highly recommend this approach if you are having similar issues.

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