Help!!! quick question

cherry300zx · Feb 17, 2008

Hey guys as of right now I have my first batch boiling i was wondering if your suppose to strain the wort out when you put it in the fermenter or leave everything together and then strain for the second phase of fermentation?

Nosnum · Feb 17, 2008

Strain before the primary.

Jesse17 · Feb 17, 2008

People do it both ways.

cherry300zx · Feb 17, 2008

if people do it both ways whats the difference in doing it one or the other?

Brewmando · Feb 17, 2008

Cool then strain it into your primary. It will be cleaner. Some believe if you just dump it all in off flavors my occur.

joshpooh · Feb 17, 2008

I'm in the strain b4 primary camp, but I'm not sure it matters either way as everything you're straining out should drop to the bottom.

Poppy360 · Feb 17, 2008

I strain. Helps make less trub in the primary.

mrk305 · Feb 17, 2008

I don't strain. I want all those hop goodies in the primary for a couple weeks. After two weeks I siphon into a secondary for another week of clearing.

Kai · Feb 18, 2008

Whatever you do, don't pour it through a strainer after it's fermented (eg b/w primary and secondary), because it'll oxidise and give you off-flavours. Just let it settle out in primary and syphon without picking it up. Or strain before primary.

quickerNu · Feb 18, 2008

Wiki whirlpooling. Lot less of a pain than straining.

Fingers · Feb 18, 2008

quickerNu said:
Wiki whirlpooling. Lot less of a pain than straining.

+1. That's what I do and it gets most of the green oatmeal sludge out.

hopsalot · Feb 18, 2008

I dont strain, but if you dont seccondary ferment, it may be a good idea

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