Not at all, just the muslin bags with dry hops and some sludge. Going to chalk it up to conservative racking for 2nd stage, bottling, and the hops bags. Have been trying to minimize the sediment at the bottom of my bottles and the pantyhose filter didn't work for me.
If this brew proves to...
Yes, two bags in fact. I had 5 gallons before racking over the bags and left only sludge today. The bags swelled up massively.
Why mention ABV? That's what I put in my original post.
Bottled this today, amazingly tasty already and 8.14%! I know I put 5 gallons into the primary but had 4 after fermentation and got roughly 3 into the bottles. Did I really lose 2 gallons to the dry hops and sludge? Any way I could have done better?
dunkelweizen is next, loving this new...
Ft. Lauderdale area, going to need a chiller I think as my house has never been under 78 degrees in the summertime.
Brewing my first batch, Irish Stout kit from midwest supplies. Was having the 'no bubbles' heebie geebies before reading a few posts on this site. Day 4 and SG is 1.02...