1st All Grain Batch a Success, but dang that's a lot of trub

[neumann]

Did my first all-grain batch this afternoon and nearly everything went flawlessly :rockin:. I got to test out my new picnic cooler mash tun and my new converted keggle. I had to a gallon of water after the boil to get back up to 5 gallons because I didn't have enough water in my 2nd and 3rd runnings and because my boil was a lot more vigorous than what I planned on. Cooled it and transferred it to the Better Bottle and pitched the yeast. This is a picture of it in it's new home next to its older, more Belgian, brother.

Is that huge line of trub normal? Keep in mind that is only about 1/2 hour after pitch. Don't think I've ever had that much trub this quickly. Anyway, I'm not too worried about it. I'm off to $0.35 wings and Guinness on draught.

 

[FreakinA]

More then I ever get!

 

[JuanKenobi]

That's all your hot and cold break material. How did you cool? If you chill very rapidly you'll end up with a crap ton of break.

The image quality sucks (iphone), but this is the Hefe I brewed today BEFORE pitching any yeast. It compacted down to about a third of that height in couple hours.

 

[Mobstar]

Wow!
I noticed the same thing with my first AG batch. My problem is that I didn't recirculate the first runoff of Wort from my cooler. I was too excited that my mash tun actually worked so well Next time I'll just collect the runoff and poor it back on top of the grains!
How was your timing for the entire process?