rtockst
Well-Known Member
I brewed my first batch of beer last night, unfortunately I had to heat my wort on an electric stovetop with the oldschool heating element. I think I severely scorched my wort because there were black rings in my kettle when finished and didn't come out easily... will this have a negative effect on the finished beer (holiday spiced amber ale)? I put the kettle into ice water in my sink to cool it off and gave it a good swirl to whirlpool. But when it finally got down to about 70 F, it looked like there was a large amount of stuff even at the surface of the wort like it didn't even get a hot break.... that worried me because I tried using an auto siphon(incredibly hard to do when boiling 2 gal water with the malt extract then adding the other 3 gal after the boil and chill) and it ran incredibly slow, so I kept pumping it to speed the siphon up. I never go to the bottom with the siphon because it clogged up on me and I ended up straining the last bit through a stainless screen (found a lot of trub there). Any ideas on the scorching and how to tell if the trub has settled? Does a large amount of trub in the fermenter affect it? How do I get that out?