Yesterday I brewed my first 5-gallon extract batch. My desire was to brew a SNPA-like pale ale.
I used 6.6 lbs Briess golden light LME
0.5 lb Crystal 60
0.5 oz Magnum for 60
0.5 oz Perle for 30
1.0 oz Cascade for 10
2.0 oz Cascade at 0 mins
US-05 ale yeast
All the hops were in pellet form as my local brew shop was sold-out of fresh.
Everything went well and 15 hours later there was bubbling through the airlock and a nice krausen formed on the top. However, the krausen was a brown color and looked as if very, very small bits of the hops were in the foam. Is this normal?
I made sure I stirred the late addition of Cascade thoroughly and made attempts at keeping the bits of protein and hops from the fermenter when transferring by using a sanitized stainless steel scrubbing pad and siphoning.
Is this normal when using pellets? If not, how does one avoid this?
I used 6.6 lbs Briess golden light LME
0.5 lb Crystal 60
0.5 oz Magnum for 60
0.5 oz Perle for 30
1.0 oz Cascade for 10
2.0 oz Cascade at 0 mins
US-05 ale yeast
All the hops were in pellet form as my local brew shop was sold-out of fresh.
Everything went well and 15 hours later there was bubbling through the airlock and a nice krausen formed on the top. However, the krausen was a brown color and looked as if very, very small bits of the hops were in the foam. Is this normal?
I made sure I stirred the late addition of Cascade thoroughly and made attempts at keeping the bits of protein and hops from the fermenter when transferring by using a sanitized stainless steel scrubbing pad and siphoning.
Is this normal when using pellets? If not, how does one avoid this?