klemms0045
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I ran into a little trouble using doing my first lager (Optimator kit) and was hoping someone might be able to provide a quick easy answer. I have ended up with an excessive amount of trub in my primary fermenter (fermentation has not started yet), about 3-4" of trub. This is my first attempt at a lager, for all the ales I've done I've always just dumped my cooled wort (without siphoning/straining) into the primary fermenter, trub and all, and never ended up with more than an inch of settled out trub. I should also note that I used a whirlflock tab for the first time on this lager.
Are there any quick fixes to this problem? Now that the trub has settled in the primary fermenter (already pitched the yeast) but fermentation has not started, could I siphon the wort into another carboy, dump the trub, then siphon back into my primary fermenter or would that screw things up? IF that is a valid approach, could I at that point fill the primary back up to 5.25 gallons (right now the trub is taking up about a gallon or more of space, hate to lose that much beer...) or would that throw things out of wack? Any help would be appreciated.
Are there any quick fixes to this problem? Now that the trub has settled in the primary fermenter (already pitched the yeast) but fermentation has not started, could I siphon the wort into another carboy, dump the trub, then siphon back into my primary fermenter or would that screw things up? IF that is a valid approach, could I at that point fill the primary back up to 5.25 gallons (right now the trub is taking up about a gallon or more of space, hate to lose that much beer...) or would that throw things out of wack? Any help would be appreciated.