I'm a newbie brewer trying my second partial mash. This time I decided to make a black IPA. Everything seemed to be going really well until I started pouring the wort into the carboy through a brewing funnel with a built-in filter. The beer was barely trickling through the funnel into the carboy, and as I was pouring I noticed the wort was the consistency of motor oil. This stuff was THICK! After I finally got the first pour to go through the funnel, there was a seriously significant amount of "sludge" in the funnel caught by the filter. After pouring the whole 2.5 gallon wort through the filter, I probably collected a good 4 cups of this goop. Normally you'd collect some goop from the hops being strained out, but this was WAY more than the amount of hops I put in.
You're probably wondering now the quantities of ingredients I used. I used a little less than 2 lbs of grain, the bulk being Carafa III and Carared. I did a 90 min boil using a total of 3 oz. of hops put in at different intervals. I used 8 lbs of light Pilsen DME, to try to get the final product to 7.4% abv.
My initial thought on what happened is that a good amount of the grain was small enough to sneak it's way through the cheesecloth that I used and ended up in the wort. It didn't help that I used so much DME in order to get a relatively high gravity beer. The question is, how much is this screwed up now, if at all? I got most of the grains out through the filtering process, but that means those grain particles were in the boil for the 20 initial steeping minutes, plus the 90 mins I boiled the hops. Also, I'm a little worried that my original gravity is at 1.120 when my calculations from BeerSmith2 says I should only be at 1.070.
Help!
You're probably wondering now the quantities of ingredients I used. I used a little less than 2 lbs of grain, the bulk being Carafa III and Carared. I did a 90 min boil using a total of 3 oz. of hops put in at different intervals. I used 8 lbs of light Pilsen DME, to try to get the final product to 7.4% abv.
My initial thought on what happened is that a good amount of the grain was small enough to sneak it's way through the cheesecloth that I used and ended up in the wort. It didn't help that I used so much DME in order to get a relatively high gravity beer. The question is, how much is this screwed up now, if at all? I got most of the grains out through the filtering process, but that means those grain particles were in the boil for the 20 initial steeping minutes, plus the 90 mins I boiled the hops. Also, I'm a little worried that my original gravity is at 1.120 when my calculations from BeerSmith2 says I should only be at 1.070.
Help!