Didn't strain hops

[plumbob]

My first batch of brew has been in the primary for about 5 days now. Activity at the airlock has been slow but steady by my novice estimation. I pulled the bubbler out this evening to have a look and smell (pleasantly Saazy!) However, the krausen looked pretty weird. Not infected, but green and foamy, really really green, as in I forgot to strain out the hops between the brew kettle and the fermenter! Doh!

Is there any corrective activity worth taking at this point, or have I even really done anything wrong? This is a gluten free beer working with a lager yeast at about 60F, which I believe would make it a common, if that matters at all.

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

it is fine, leave it alone. A lot of people ,including me ,do not strain out the hops. They will settle to the bottom with the trub and be left behind when you rack to secondary or a bottling bucket.

 

[boist]

In the future, you can try to whirlpool your wort before putting it in the fermentor. This will get the trub (including hop residue) to form a mound in the middle of your kettle and will keep most of it out of your fermentor. But in general having this stuff in your fermentor doesn't hurt anything. It just screws up your volume calculations a bit because you have extra volume taken up in the fermentor by something other than beer (so you may think you have 21L of beer in the fermentor, when you in fact have 19L. If you then use that as basis for calculation how much sugar to add for carbonation, you'll be a bit over. But still not a big deal)

 

[plumbob]

In the future, you can try to whirlpool your wort before putting it in the fermentor. This will get the trub (including hop residue) to form a mound in the middle of your kettle and will keep most of it out of your fermentor.

Perfect, I'll give that a try next time. Little extra arreation can't hurt either.

 

[zepolmot]

I get around this by pouring my wort through a double layer of paint strainer bags as I'm going into the fermenter. It helps aerate a little as I pick it up to drain it through, and I get an extra liter or so back that would have been soaked into the trub.