bigbeergeek

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We're dealing with a professional here, gentlemen.

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tennesseean_87

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+1 I mash in paint bag then line fermenter with it to filter out hops and whatever else. I squeeze this bag, too, because there is a lot of liquid left.

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Drinking:EW Robust Porter, Coffee Porter, How Now Brown Ale, Cranapfelwein, Apfelwein (3056 yeast, 12/5/2011), IEPA
Bottle conditioning: Blueberry Pomegranate Apfelwein (3/3/2012)
Fermenter: BM OctoberFAST (I don't care if it's late), Raspberry Apfelwein, faux-pilsener
On Deck: Yooper's DFH 60, EToj Arrogant Bastard

BrewMU

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First, do you have a ball valve on your pot? That eliminates problems with clogged siphons. I have a tube filter attached to mine, then run it through a screened funnel - it keeps out chunks, but lets wort and presumably trub through. I figure that anything not in solution should be filtered out, if possible. I find that the hops (leaf) act as a kind of first filter - I just tilt the pot at the end and get every bit.
I'm going to make a wild guess - you use pellet hops, right? They create an ooze/cloudiness that leaf hops don't.
There's no way you should lose more wort than the few ounces soaked into the hops - that's beer, man! Horrible things happen to people who waste that stuff - like running out of beer, for instance.

dcarter

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I poured my brew kettle whole hog through a common kitchen collender until I bought a 30 gallon pot and installed a bazooka screen today... Its a great way to aerate too!
Trub won't hurt your beer as long as you ferment in primary for at least 2 weeks, and move it into a secondary fermenter, your beer will be clear. Don't throw out 2 gallons of beer!

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phuff7129

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I use irish moss last 15 minutes of the boil, dump it all in the fermenter. If I am using medium flocculent yeast its clear but with a little haze to it. High flocculant yeast comes out very clear.

Just remember, Beer is like Sex. The worst I ever had was pretty good!

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jholen

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Brewed some beer with water from a garden hose, and it was duly named Garden Hose IPA/Garden Hose Hef.

Using your analogy, I don't think Sex with a garden hose would be very good at all (though I have never tried)!

RandyAB

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My wort looks like giant egg drop soup as well. Initially I thought I was pulling the trub off the bottom on the kettle. Now I'm thinking that most of the stuff is cold break protein. My counter flow chiller takes me from 200f to 60f instantaneously so I think that precipitates everything out effectively. It all settles pretty quickly and the beer is clear.