Racked the Pumpkin Ale to a secondary to adjust the spices yesterday and got to thinking - maybe I'm not reducing the trub losses as I should be - it's something I've been meaning to tackle but haven't yet.
Taking the easy way out; I reset the Trub Loss in my Equipment Profile from 0.40 G to 0.88 G (I actually measured what was left in the pot last brew) figuring I'd just let the loss be a loss but for some reason, with the increased water in the recipe, I had an issue with hitting my OG target, when I can usually hit it within 4 or 5 points. But this one was almost 20 points off!
Better whirlpool, wait longer before running off into the fermenter, sanitized hop-sock on the end of my drain tube, and a stainless scrubby stuffed into the outlet inside my boil pot - THAT should help, no?
Any other tips on getting cleaner wort from the boil pot into the fermenter? (I use an immersion chiller and let the wort drain from the pot into the fermenter by gravity - no pump, no counter-flow chiller, no filter, just a hose from the spigot in the boil pot and a plastic funnel with a fairly fine-mesh plastic screen in it)