AltusGravitas
New Member
This is my first thread post (new guy):
I haven't been brewing for too terribly long. Maybe about a year with 12-15 partial mash batches under my belt. My LHBS recently turned me on to using food grade silicone as an anti-foaming agent to be added to the wort to prevent boilovers and primary fermenter explosions. I have used it in my past few batches and have gotten great results.
Today, I was brewing Falconer's Flight Extra IPA from the kit put out by Brewer's Best and when I went to add the silicone early in the boil, the dropper clogged up and, being an idiot, I just decided to squeeze harder which of course made the top blow off and probably about a third of the contents of the eyedropper went into the wort. I'm hoping it doesn't negatively affect the final product.
When I took a sample to check the OG I noticed the wort in the test beaker had separated into what looked like a bunch of clusters of hops/trub solids clumped together in suspension throughout the tube.
Does anyone know if this is a result of too much silicone in the wort? Should I expect any negative results in the final product or will simply racking to secondary help to clear things up?
-AltusGravitas
I haven't been brewing for too terribly long. Maybe about a year with 12-15 partial mash batches under my belt. My LHBS recently turned me on to using food grade silicone as an anti-foaming agent to be added to the wort to prevent boilovers and primary fermenter explosions. I have used it in my past few batches and have gotten great results.
Today, I was brewing Falconer's Flight Extra IPA from the kit put out by Brewer's Best and when I went to add the silicone early in the boil, the dropper clogged up and, being an idiot, I just decided to squeeze harder which of course made the top blow off and probably about a third of the contents of the eyedropper went into the wort. I'm hoping it doesn't negatively affect the final product.
When I took a sample to check the OG I noticed the wort in the test beaker had separated into what looked like a bunch of clusters of hops/trub solids clumped together in suspension throughout the tube.
Does anyone know if this is a result of too much silicone in the wort? Should I expect any negative results in the final product or will simply racking to secondary help to clear things up?
-AltusGravitas
