I brewed my second batch last night, an IPA kit. Palmer and another book I have both suggest doing the hop additions to low gravity boil. They both suggest adding half the LME initially, doing your hop additions and then adding the remaining LME in the last 15 minutes.
I tried this, but the second LME addition resulted in another hot break. I was doing a 3gal boil in a 7gal kettle. The hot break pushed a lot of the hop additions onto the sides of the kettle (out of the wort). This is potential issue #1. The hops are not in the wort for the full time on the recipe.
Issue #2 is that after I cooled the wort and poured it into the fermentor, there was no trub in the bottom of the kettle. In my first batch, there was a ton of sediment that was easy to prevent from pouring into the fermentor. In this batch I think the trub was spread out over the sides of the kettle. In hindsight I should have used a siphon, rather than pouring it. I think I got a bunch of trub in my fermentor.
Am I doing something wrong with the second LME addition? Anyone else do this with similar/different results? And, most importantly will the beer come out ok with all that trub in the fermentor? I think I will do a secondary on this one to help clarify it.
I tried this, but the second LME addition resulted in another hot break. I was doing a 3gal boil in a 7gal kettle. The hot break pushed a lot of the hop additions onto the sides of the kettle (out of the wort). This is potential issue #1. The hops are not in the wort for the full time on the recipe.
Issue #2 is that after I cooled the wort and poured it into the fermentor, there was no trub in the bottom of the kettle. In my first batch, there was a ton of sediment that was easy to prevent from pouring into the fermentor. In this batch I think the trub was spread out over the sides of the kettle. In hindsight I should have used a siphon, rather than pouring it. I think I got a bunch of trub in my fermentor.
Am I doing something wrong with the second LME addition? Anyone else do this with similar/different results? And, most importantly will the beer come out ok with all that trub in the fermentor? I think I will do a secondary on this one to help clarify it.