Hi all,
i'm on my second attempt to brew all-grain with hop pellets.
The first batch i made a belgian saison, infused hop pellets in boil keeping them in common bags (something like that http://www.flickr.com/photos/alyssssyla/2191317603/ ) for 15-30 min.
This beer was really muddy, powdery... having none experience i accused malt not well milled, yeast cake stirred/shaked...
But now, when i approached my second batch with same pellets, during chilling, i noticed that wort resulted the same of the previous batch: powdery, really rich in particulate and sediment.
So, i filtered the stuff out the best i can with a cloth before adding yeast, and identified that all of this came from broken hop pellets.
Why i'm getting this? Maybe i'm missing something? Teach me please, for the next time!
Anyway, now she's fermenting well, and being on high krausen there's great turbolence and microscopic bubbles conufsing the overall look, but i can see richness of powdery particulate moving and some of it is now sitcked to the walls or suspended on the foam head, my question is...
at this step there's nothing to do to clear more?
My plan is to rack to secondary when it calms down, see how is it and... what? If i cloth-filtering again when racking or bottling isn't there the risk of stopping fermentation or preclude bottle priming?
i'm on my second attempt to brew all-grain with hop pellets.
The first batch i made a belgian saison, infused hop pellets in boil keeping them in common bags (something like that http://www.flickr.com/photos/alyssssyla/2191317603/ ) for 15-30 min.
This beer was really muddy, powdery... having none experience i accused malt not well milled, yeast cake stirred/shaked...
But now, when i approached my second batch with same pellets, during chilling, i noticed that wort resulted the same of the previous batch: powdery, really rich in particulate and sediment.
So, i filtered the stuff out the best i can with a cloth before adding yeast, and identified that all of this came from broken hop pellets.
Why i'm getting this? Maybe i'm missing something? Teach me please, for the next time!
Anyway, now she's fermenting well, and being on high krausen there's great turbolence and microscopic bubbles conufsing the overall look, but i can see richness of powdery particulate moving and some of it is now sitcked to the walls or suspended on the foam head, my question is...
at this step there's nothing to do to clear more?
My plan is to rack to secondary when it calms down, see how is it and... what? If i cloth-filtering again when racking or bottling isn't there the risk of stopping fermentation or preclude bottle priming?