Over hopping?

Just filter through a large kitchen sieve. The splashing and aeration is good for your beer at this stage ( before fermentation) to oxygenate the wort for healthy yeast. The small hop fragments that get through will not hurt and will settle to the bottom when fermentation finishes. Rack the clear beer to a clean fermenter before leaving any sludge behind before bottling. Hope this is clear. Steve W.

First I love hops and not sure you can over hop. Of course this is style dependent.

One of the things I did to reduce the trash from flowing into my fermenter is I went to the grocery store and in the cleaner section found a copper scrubby. Tied it to the end of my siphon hose. Since the hose cannot handle boiling, I soak it in iodophor to sanitize. Works great when you have leaf hops. But less so for pellets. So I went to using a hop bag. Home made one with a large volume. 4" wide and reaches from top to bottom of my boil pot.

You can do this with pellets put not with leaf hops, the leaf hops must roll in the boil. Greatly reduces the trash in my wort and of course no hops transfer to the fermenter.

Frank ATF Home Brew Club New Bern NC

if the hops and other trub clog the mesh strainer, sanitize a baking spatula and lightly "scrape" the strainer mesh to clear it a bit so flow is restored. this will, of course, "bleed" some of the hops/trub through the strainer into the fermenter, but as is noted, this will settle during fermentation, and you'll leave it behind when you either rack to a secondary or bottle.

bob p

MEDICAL SUPPLY HOUSES MAKE TUBULAR GAUZE in spools you need some about the size of your big toe only 6-7" long. It stretches laterally. Cut it to fit, fill with hops, staple or knot it for closure

I go to Dollar Store and get a cheap pillow case- cotton-polyester- it is just like a tight gauze, works for hops and grain, washes out fine

Yodar

MEDICAL SUPPLY HOUSES MAKE TUBULAR GAUZE in spools you need some about the size of your big toe only 6-7" long. It stretches laterally. Cut it to fit, fill with hops, staple or knot it for closure

I go to Dollar Store and get a cheap pillow case- cotton-polyester- it is just like a tight gauze, works for hops and grain, washes out fine

Yodar

Reading about the difference between german and czech pilseners, I've found this quote:

"The sweet maltiness of the pils from Southern Germany originated from the need to reduce the amount of hops because the heavy level of carbonates in Southern German water caused excessive bitterness if too many hops were used."

My last batch were "over hopped", and I'm starting to thing that it's due to a high level of carbonates in the water I'm using. But I'm really a newbie in this home brewing stuff, maybe some expert here have a more informed opinion.

regards, Paulo