So I did my second AG batch today and everything seemed to be going very well. I actually got about 80% BH efficiency, hit my preboil volume, and started brewing. It was all good until I got to rack to the fermentor. I had an absolutely inordinate amount of trub and ended up having to siphon through a lot of it just to get about 4 gallons of wort instead of the 5.25 I had tried to shoot for. And the fermentor looks like it is full of diluted oatmeal... Very thick and gritty looking.
I had to drop my friend off back at his house while I waited for the wort to chill and by the time I got back it was at 62 deg F. Dunno if that was related to why I had so much trub.
PS - Will I be fine to just let what I siphoned into the fermentor settle and maybe do a secondary in about a week or two to clear it out?
Anyways, here is the recipe I brewed:
Mash Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
10 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 2 80.0 %
1 lbs Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain 3 8.0 %
8.0 oz Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 4 4.0 %
8.0 oz Special B Malt (180.0 SRM) Grain 5 4.0 %
Mash Steps
Name Description Step Temperature Step Time
Mash In Add 16.00 qt of water at 163.7 F 152.0 F 60 min
Mash Out Add 8.40 qt of water at 200.7 F 168.0 F 10 min
Fly sparge with 2.15 gal water at 168.0 F
Boil Wort
Add water to achieve boil volume of 5.75 gal
Estimated pre-boil gravity is 1.054 SG
Boil Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
First Wort Hops
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
1.00 oz Fuggles [4.20 %] - First Wort 60.0 min Hop 6 14.4 IBUs
8.0 oz Brown Sugar, Dark (50.0 SRM)
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [4.90 %] - Boil 60.0 min
1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins)
2.00 oz Fuggles [4.20 %] - Boil 15.0 min
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [4.90 %] - Boil 0.0 min
I had to drop my friend off back at his house while I waited for the wort to chill and by the time I got back it was at 62 deg F. Dunno if that was related to why I had so much trub.
PS - Will I be fine to just let what I siphoned into the fermentor settle and maybe do a secondary in about a week or two to clear it out?
Anyways, here is the recipe I brewed:
Mash Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
10 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 2 80.0 %
1 lbs Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain 3 8.0 %
8.0 oz Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 4 4.0 %
8.0 oz Special B Malt (180.0 SRM) Grain 5 4.0 %
Mash Steps
Name Description Step Temperature Step Time
Mash In Add 16.00 qt of water at 163.7 F 152.0 F 60 min
Mash Out Add 8.40 qt of water at 200.7 F 168.0 F 10 min
Fly sparge with 2.15 gal water at 168.0 F
Boil Wort
Add water to achieve boil volume of 5.75 gal
Estimated pre-boil gravity is 1.054 SG
Boil Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
First Wort Hops
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
1.00 oz Fuggles [4.20 %] - First Wort 60.0 min Hop 6 14.4 IBUs
8.0 oz Brown Sugar, Dark (50.0 SRM)
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [4.90 %] - Boil 60.0 min
1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins)
2.00 oz Fuggles [4.20 %] - Boil 15.0 min
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [4.90 %] - Boil 0.0 min