After your boil process is complete in your opinion what do you feel is best...dump it all in primary hop sediment and all...or filter...I know a lot of you use hop balls or bags for hop additions...but just curious about your thoughts...
sediment in or sediment out...
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JollyIsTheRoger
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I haven't started washing and reusing yeast yet, so everything goes in. If I was reusing it I would be more careful
ABrewingApe
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I dump mine into the fermenter through a wire strainer. Gets out the big chunks and leaves the particulates in, plus provides a little aeration. No problems here.
I dump everything in, and I wash and reuse my yeasts. I end up using a bit more boiled+cooled water for the washing process to get a good separation, but if you decant carefully you'll end up with yeast that's just as clean and free of debris. English yeasts like S04 and WLP002 are a little more difficult.
tuskenraider
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I run it through a grain bag to filter it.
tennesseean_87
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I wash yeast, but I use a sanitized paint strainer bag in my bucket, and filter with that. It filters out hop particles, but I think most of the break gets through. I wash it ot make sure I'm not saving any break matter in my yeast samples.
That's really one of those things that is a matter of personal preference and nothing else. Some dump everything in, without straining, just pour it in the bucket or in the funnel....Some use a big strainer that fit in the funnel for a carboy, or a sanitized 5 gallon nylon paint strainer bag in the bucket...
I have done it all ways. It really doesn't matter...anything will settle.
In other words, there is no wrong way to do it, or better way, or way that will make the best beer...they all work...the choice is what will work the best for you. That's how you develop you own unique brewing process. By trying all ways and deciding what works best for you.
What I do with my IC, is chill the wort, then I lean the bottom of my autosiphon about two coils up from the bottom on the metal of the siphon. That rests it above most of the break material and trub, then I rack it to the fermenter until I'm down to that and carefully lower the siphon down into the gunk, just trying to get as much of the wort as possible without letting in the hops and break matter.
A whirlpool helps.
But pretty much up until I got my immersion chiller I just dumped for the majority of my batches. And I still managed to do well in contests...
I find that long primaries render my beer just as clear, and crisp tasting regardless of whether I dumped it all in or not....so I just do what works for me.....
And I don't use hop bags, everything goes right into the boil
I have done it all ways. It really doesn't matter...anything will settle.
In other words, there is no wrong way to do it, or better way, or way that will make the best beer...they all work...the choice is what will work the best for you. That's how you develop you own unique brewing process. By trying all ways and deciding what works best for you.
What I do with my IC, is chill the wort, then I lean the bottom of my autosiphon about two coils up from the bottom on the metal of the siphon. That rests it above most of the break material and trub, then I rack it to the fermenter until I'm down to that and carefully lower the siphon down into the gunk, just trying to get as much of the wort as possible without letting in the hops and break matter.
A whirlpool helps.
But pretty much up until I got my immersion chiller I just dumped for the majority of my batches. And I still managed to do well in contests...
I find that long primaries render my beer just as clear, and crisp tasting regardless of whether I dumped it all in or not....so I just do what works for me.....
And I don't use hop bags, everything goes right into the boil
I used to be a dumper but since I got a ball valve on the kettle my arms don't hurt as much.. everything goes in down to the ball valve wich on my last batch was 4"of hop and break in the bottom of the fermenter bucket from my iipa.. I do account for that space and fill to my 5.5 gal mark and loose another .5 of break in the kettle... I have crystal clear beer when I want it 
Yeah I have tried it both ways as well. I dont really have a preference I just thought...I wonder what everyone else likes to do. The only thing that I have noticed is that I cannot get as much into the fermentor with all sediment...it actually pushes the wort up looking like I have more than I really do..so by the time I go from primary to secondary and get to bottling...I have like 3.5gallons...well that was the case from my IPA, there was a lot of sediment...
buzzkill
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if I am going to reuse the yeast I keep it out.
tuskenraider
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I'll further note that when I filter with the grain bag, as I've been doing the last couple of batches, I can basically let all the trub out of the kettle which lowers trub loss signifigantly. I do need to get a hop screen now that I have a ball valve kettle, to keep the leaf hops from plugging it. Where I was typically leaving 2 to 3 quarts in the kettle, depending on the hops(pellet or leaf and amount), I now only leave a quart or less behind in the bag. More beer into the fermenter is nice.
