Hey guys,
I just brewed my first beer a few days ago. I have a Brewer's Best kit and just finished brewing their IPA. I have a question and a few fears...We used (stupidly) a spaghetti strainer to pour the beer through into the primary fermenter and a bunch of the hops got through. I just opened the fermenter a few minutes ago and saw that a lot of those hops had attached to the side of the bucket and to the underside of the lid. Is it advisable to re strain the brew and put it back into the fermenter? It has been in there for 6 days and the airlock has been bubbling consistently. There is a thick head on the brew right now. So should I dump it out and restrain bak into the primary? Is the brew ruined? There are a lot of hops I think.
I just brewed my first beer a few days ago. I have a Brewer's Best kit and just finished brewing their IPA. I have a question and a few fears...We used (stupidly) a spaghetti strainer to pour the beer through into the primary fermenter and a bunch of the hops got through. I just opened the fermenter a few minutes ago and saw that a lot of those hops had attached to the side of the bucket and to the underside of the lid. Is it advisable to re strain the brew and put it back into the fermenter? It has been in there for 6 days and the airlock has been bubbling consistently. There is a thick head on the brew right now. So should I dump it out and restrain bak into the primary? Is the brew ruined? There are a lot of hops I think.