What you're looking at is my new idea for siphoning out of my boil kettle. We're sort of going backwards to simplicity here from the more complex that way it was before. The old design, which I don't have a picture of, was a down tube ending in a "T" connector that went into a circular ring shape that sort of encircled the divot at the bottom of the pot. On the bottom of the ring was a lot of hacksaw slots. That was used to filter the hop material out. That worked great when only whole hops were used, but I'm findingwhole hops hard to come by, and pellets much more convenient to use. Problem is, pellet hops clogged that ring-thing up in a heartbeat. Complete blockage, and no flow. So, I screwed with a weird "U" shaped thing for a while that just was a straight through tube with no straining mechanism on it at all, but picked up wort from the side of the kettle, right about where the end of this current tube is now. That worked great for pellet hops, but kind of jacked up the immersion chiller a bit because the two devices interfered with each other. Also, the straight tube got totally plugged once or twice by a simple hop cone getting jammed right in the end of it.
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