rattletrap
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Just brewed my first batch of beer and bottled today. Wondering how much waste there is. Only filled about 500 oz out of the possible 640. What's the normal amount of waste?
7 days in primary.
If your brewing a five gallon batch generally you want a little more than five gallons going into your fermentor to account for trub loss.
personally i think you're rushing the beer off the yeast too soon- you're not even letting any post fermentation conditioning process even occur.
I've never done this at all. I put 5 gallons into my fermenter.
Are you keeping all of your brews in the primary for a month? I would love to get more beer out of the fermenter if this is a viable solution, I just don't think I can wait that long :cross:.
Are you keeping all of your brews in the primary for a month? I would love to get more beer out of the fermenter if this is a viable solution, I just don't think I can wait that long :cross:.
I've never done this at all. I put 5 gallons into my fermenter.
With long primaries, secondaries (which it sounds like the OP isn't using either) and/or cold crashing, it allows the yeast cake to settle, and more importanly, it COMPRESSES and gets hard. So rather than your trub layer being very viscous and mixed with beer which you ultimately lose, the beer sits on top of a harder yeast layer, and when you rack you can pretty much rack like a vacuum the beer off the surface of the cake.
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