Slurk
Grandmaster Brewer
OK,
Yesterday I brewed an IPA.
After the cooling there was a larger amount of trubb than normal and it looked/behaved like gelatin ???
Normally I have 0.4 - 0.5 G trubb loss. This time I had 1.0 -1.1 G "trubb-like loss" behaving like (thin) gelatin.
I use Irish Moss and know it causes large gelatin like clumps and it did. But this time there was a gelatin layer that I have never seen before (not thick/compact but thinner though still yelly).
I was in doubt how to proceed :-\ Should I leave this thin gelatin trubb with the larger clumps as a whole in the kettle and loose 1 G or should I try to leave only the large clumps and take the rest into the fermentor?
I have chosen for the last option:
- I am not afraid for any off-flavours due to the trubb
- No infection/contamination: the wort was sterile at that moment
- I am expecting that during the primary, due to the high fermentation activity, the "thin gelatin like" trubb will disappear
- I am expecting that things are going back to normal and after the primary trubb and yeast will drop
Questions:
1. Is this "thin gelatin like" trubb normal after the cooling?
2. What could be an explanation?
3. Any recommendations/thoughts to avoid this?
Some facts:
- beer type, IPA
- malts(Maris Otter Pale Ale/Chrystal/Wheat)
- double infusion mash, batch sparge and 75 min boil
- pellet hops (I used a hop bag)
- 15gr Irish Moss during the last 10 minutes of the boil
- cooled down from 212F to 66F in 20 minutes
- batch size 6.0 Gallons
Regards,
Slurk
Yesterday I brewed an IPA.
After the cooling there was a larger amount of trubb than normal and it looked/behaved like gelatin ???
Normally I have 0.4 - 0.5 G trubb loss. This time I had 1.0 -1.1 G "trubb-like loss" behaving like (thin) gelatin.
I use Irish Moss and know it causes large gelatin like clumps and it did. But this time there was a gelatin layer that I have never seen before (not thick/compact but thinner though still yelly).
I was in doubt how to proceed :-\ Should I leave this thin gelatin trubb with the larger clumps as a whole in the kettle and loose 1 G or should I try to leave only the large clumps and take the rest into the fermentor?
I have chosen for the last option:
- I am not afraid for any off-flavours due to the trubb
- No infection/contamination: the wort was sterile at that moment
- I am expecting that during the primary, due to the high fermentation activity, the "thin gelatin like" trubb will disappear
- I am expecting that things are going back to normal and after the primary trubb and yeast will drop
Questions:
1. Is this "thin gelatin like" trubb normal after the cooling?
2. What could be an explanation?
3. Any recommendations/thoughts to avoid this?
Some facts:
- beer type, IPA
- malts(Maris Otter Pale Ale/Chrystal/Wheat)
- double infusion mash, batch sparge and 75 min boil
- pellet hops (I used a hop bag)
- 15gr Irish Moss during the last 10 minutes of the boil
- cooled down from 212F to 66F in 20 minutes
- batch size 6.0 Gallons
Regards,
Slurk