Lots of hop gunk

[Scottanooga]

I brewed a California Common yesterday and had way more hop particulate in my wort post boil than usual. My recipe had 2 ounces of pellet hops total. I use a hop spider with the paint strainer bag as I have on the last four or five batches. No holes in the bag or anything.

Anybody else ever experience this? Ever notice much difference from one batch to the next?

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Are you sure it was hop gunk, and not hot break, cold break, etc? Any differences in the way you cooled the wort?

 

[Scottanooga]

Good point. It looked like hop gunk, but could have been hot or cold break. My process was the same as always, but I never had this much gunk when using a strainer. Then again, this was my seventh batch ever, so the last six batches are all I have to compare to.