I'm starting AG soon so I brewed a couple of small test batches to play with my technique/equipment and I put them in clear 2 gallon water containers to ferment. Easy question - I have never fermented in a clear vessel before!... is it supposed to be a cloudy mess of trub and particles floating everywhere? Like a small hurricane going on in my fermenter? I thought I did a pretty good job keeping the grain out of the wort, and one of the reasons I'm going to AG is because I can't stand the dark colors I get from extract and I want clearer beer but this thing looks nasty! I'm hoping this is just how early fermentation looks (>24 hrs) but I'm planning on doing a larger AG batch tonight and I'm worried I'm doing something wrong.
If the recipe helps it was a modified one from the recipe forum. I used some leftover ingredients and found an irish ale that used lots of vienna (which i have lots of)
2lbsvienna
.5lbs 2 row
.25lbs carapils
.25lbs 20L
.25 fuggles@40
.25 EKG@8
It was like a 1.5 gallon boil for a 1.5 gallon batch and I topped off what evaporated with filtered water..
I don't have a wort chiller yet (free shipping at AHS this wkd!) so maybe that will help?
So, long story short. Is it supposed to look like that? I've brewed 20 batches but never actually seen something ferment!
If the recipe helps it was a modified one from the recipe forum. I used some leftover ingredients and found an irish ale that used lots of vienna (which i have lots of)
2lbsvienna
.5lbs 2 row
.25lbs carapils
.25lbs 20L
.25 fuggles@40
.25 EKG@8
It was like a 1.5 gallon boil for a 1.5 gallon batch and I topped off what evaporated with filtered water..
I don't have a wort chiller yet (free shipping at AHS this wkd!) so maybe that will help?
So, long story short. Is it supposed to look like that? I've brewed 20 batches but never actually seen something ferment!