Hop based Antifoam

A couple of shots from brewing a RyeIPA that calls for First Wort Hopping (FWH), which is where hops are added to the kettle during the sparge and remain there for the entire sparge time plus boil. The problem is if you are maxing out the capacity of your kettle it usually incurrs a messy boilover and then loss of some of the FWH and some wort volume.

Here is a picture just before the boil is about to start with about 48 litres of wort in a 50 litre kettle.

I tossed in a Hop based Antifoam capsule as the heat was applied to bring to a boil.
A full boil, and no boilover. No mess, and no need to skim the protein foam, that would have resulted in a loss of FWH's.

A great product. I'll be using it whenever I'm doing a full volume boil.