Hello!
My last brew session went good & all, but at the time of clean-up I discovered something that I hadn't encountered in previous sessions. A scorch in the bottom of my keggle. Allow me to start from the top....
I decided to try something new in this session. A protein rest, although I don't know that I needed to do it, but I wanted to see if I would get slightly increased head retention & as I said to try something new. I have a false bottom & a false bottom stand(for added filtration) that I rest my grain bag on that's within a Bayou Classic steamer basket. I also have my basket modified with bolts that act as a stand that sits upon the false bottom.
At the end of the boil/cool down/wort collected & everything, I noticed I had quite a bit more trub than from previous brew sessions, and the false bottom stand had WAY MORE than the usual spent matter/trub than I had ever seen before. I can only guess that due to the protein rest, I extracted more starches/sugars/whatnot and the extra collection of gunk in the FB stand filter is what caused it, cause the blacked scorched area is right where the FB stand sits.
I was able to more or less clean up this blackened area, but I'd like to avoid this in the future.
Should I not have done a protein rest?
Any thoughts/ideas/feedback as to what else could have cause this?
Or could I have answered my own question?
My last brew session went good & all, but at the time of clean-up I discovered something that I hadn't encountered in previous sessions. A scorch in the bottom of my keggle. Allow me to start from the top....
I decided to try something new in this session. A protein rest, although I don't know that I needed to do it, but I wanted to see if I would get slightly increased head retention & as I said to try something new. I have a false bottom & a false bottom stand(for added filtration) that I rest my grain bag on that's within a Bayou Classic steamer basket. I also have my basket modified with bolts that act as a stand that sits upon the false bottom.
At the end of the boil/cool down/wort collected & everything, I noticed I had quite a bit more trub than from previous brew sessions, and the false bottom stand had WAY MORE than the usual spent matter/trub than I had ever seen before. I can only guess that due to the protein rest, I extracted more starches/sugars/whatnot and the extra collection of gunk in the FB stand filter is what caused it, cause the blacked scorched area is right where the FB stand sits.
I was able to more or less clean up this blackened area, but I'd like to avoid this in the future.
Should I not have done a protein rest?
Any thoughts/ideas/feedback as to what else could have cause this?
Or could I have answered my own question?