"Flour-ish" sediment in fermenter?

[grrickar]

OK, sounds odd but let me explain. I have done plenty of extract and partial mash brews. This past Saturday I did my first AG - a ESB which I hope proves to be close to a Fuller's. I mashed in a 10 gallon igloo with a Wilserbag inside. Not that it was needed but a manifold was in the bottom as well.

The first runnings looked a bit murky, so I essentially vorlaufted. I start the runnings again and began to fly sparge. This is where I think I missed a step.

Thinking there was no harm done in stirring the mash since I had the BIAB liner, I did so. I did not think to vorlauft again. The wort looked 'muddy' in the BK, but I pressed on. When I chilled after the 60 min boil, I could see cold break but it did not seem to 'congeal' like it normally does. I did not use whirlfloc or irish moss (i had neither and I wasn't going to sweat it).

I chilled down to 70, put the wort in a carboy and pitched the yeast at 63F. Before the yeast went in I could see there was "flour" (protein?) settled in the bottom. I gentle twist of the carboy resulted in it churning up into the already cloudy wort. I used a hop spider with a Wilser hopsack so virtually no pellet hops escaped, and the bag is a tight weave so what is it?

Beer is fermenting fine, smells from the airlock are awesome, but just wondering if I either should not have stirred *or* vorlaufted again after stirring?

No worries really, it is just one of the cloudiest worts I have worked with. It looked 'muddy' even before I pitched the yeast...

 

[wilserbrewer]

Rdwhahb

All grain will have more trub in the fermenter than extract or PM.

Some try to limit the amount of trub that makes it to the fermenter, some don't at all. Most agree it makes little difference in the finished beer, for either better or worse.

Also, murky muddy cloudy wort to the fermenter can and most likely will yield nice clear beer to the glass, the sediment will settle and be left behind when you rack.

Stirring during your fly sparge may have increased the trub, but I wouldn't worry about it.

You could try a batch sparge, simple and effective IMHO. Best to let the runnings drain undisturbed either way you sparge moving forward.

Cheers!

 

[Jaymex98]

^Yes! I have a honey blond fermenting now. Brewed last Saturday. It looks exactly like that.

 

[TheHappyHopper]

No need to worry, it looks like it is on its way to making a delicious beer.

 

[grrickar]

That ESB was quite honestly the best result I have had out of an AG brew so far. I have done 6 so far. I only hope my Gumballhead clone turns out as good.