david_42

Recipes 

Just for grins, I've place the sludge from the last batch in the fridge. I've wondered how much wort is being wasted. If it settles enough, I'll pour the wort off, boil it a bit and add it to the fermenter.

About 14 hours in the fridge:

__________________
Remember one unassailable statistic, as explained by the late, great George Carlin: "Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!"

"I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact." Elon Musk

Teacher

Recipes 

I squeeze mine out in the strainer with a spatula for this very reason.

seanmichaleen

Recipes 

You probably can dillute it to 1035 OG and use it for starters after boiling it

noblesquirrel

Recipes 

Seems like you'd end up extracting unwanted hop tannins, though maybe not

__________________
Brian
BJCP - C0839 Master

HOPS! Homebrewers' Pride of the Southside

BarleyWater

Recipes 

Might not be a bad idea, but hop oils aren't good for yeast. As long as there weren't too many hop in the boil I imagine after being diluted to 1.035ish (I do 1.040 usually), it wouldn't be much of a problem. As long as there's enough to do a starter with I may try with my next brew's sludge.

__________________

Fermenting: Nada
On Tap:Cran Wit, Dr Pepper Dubbel, Cascadian Pale Ale, Dark Chocolate Stout, Imperial Stout, Brown Mild, Schwarzbier
On Board: IIPA

www.franconiabrewing.com

toman8r

Recipes 

Kaiser just filters it through paper towels and saves it for future starters and kraeusening.

Teacher

Recipes 

Dunno. I should have stated that I only do this for my Imperial RyePA, in which I'm looking to maximize hop character (of course). I've never noticed anything particularly tannic about the character, though.

david_42

Recipes 

What I really need to do is get the new hop filter finished. The bazooka isn't doing the job with all pellet hop beers.

__________________
Remember one unassailable statistic, as explained by the late, great George Carlin: "Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!"

"I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact." Elon Musk

david_42

Recipes 

After five days, I decided it wasn't going to settle anymore. I siphoned off the clear wort (about a cup) and dumped the sludge into a measuring cup:



After tasting the wort I can draw the following conclusions:

1. Every ounce of hops you use will absorb seven times its weight in wort.
2. The difference between fresh sludge and compacted sludge is about 25%.
3. After five days on the sludge, the flavor of the wort is more or less identical to the fresh wort.
4. That means dumping the whole kettle into the fermenter will ultimately increase your beer yield less than one bottle per five gallons, but it won't adversely impact the flavor.

__________________
Remember one unassailable statistic, as explained by the late, great George Carlin: "Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!"

"I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact." Elon Musk

scinerd3000

Recipes 

interesting experiment. Honestly i wouldnt have thought of that but im glad you still didn't lose too much liquid.

__________________
On Hiatus: Brewing at work....