Does it hurt anything if a lot of the trub and hop sludge from the boil make it into the primary fermenter? I just finished my first full boil and I had a hell of a time getting the wort into the fermenter without a bunch of crap going with it.
I tried the whirlpool thing... stirred the crap out of it and waited 30 minutes for it to settle. Most of it did settle to the bottom, but not really in a cone... and if it was, the racking cane just sucked it up no matter how hard I tried to keep it away from the center of the pot. I racked into my primary bucket with a nylon mesh straining screen on it... worked ok at first, but as more sludge got onto it just kind of stopped up and I had to scrape the gunk out with a spoon to get the wort through. I had to top up with 1/2 to 3/4 gallon of water since I lost some wort in the sludge. I'm guess most of the crap will settle out in the fermenter, but will this have a negative impact on my brew?
Next time I am definitely putting my hops in separate bags... or maybe I just need a metal strainer.