Hops in the fermenter

[Math0]

After the boil, can I leave the hops into the mash and put it in the fermenter? Is it a good idea to do so and how will it affects the flavors? More or less flavors from the hops?

 

[freisste]

My understanding is that boiling gets everything out of the hops. That said, I wouldn't take them out. I don't think they add anything bad.

Pellet or leaf?

 

[KeyWestBrewing]

After the boil, can I leave the hops into the mash and put it in the fermenter? Is it a good idea to do so and how will it affects the flavors? More or less flavors from the hops?

I'd filter them out before, or as your transferring the wort to the fermenter. Just my 2 cents.

 

[dlaramie08]

I have done both and realized that it only matters when you want to deal with the mess. Leave them in and they settle out into the trub. If you are harvesting, then it presents more crap needing to be separated from your yeast. If you decide to try not to put them in the fermentor then you have to whirlpool or filter them pre-fermentor.

 

[Math0]

Hops are in the pellet form!

 

[KeyWestBrewing]

Really easy and cheap to put a cheese cloth or paint strainer in a funnel and pour the wort through it as it goes into the fermenter. You can even rubber band it to the end of of the auto siphon. Its simple and efficient enough to make it worth it to save the trub loss IMO.

 

[dlaramie08]

I also prefer to remove them pre-fermentor. I use a 5 gallon paint strainer bag and squeeze the crap out of it.

 

[833R]

I used to strain them out. then I just dump the whole thing right in the fermenter. Now I strain them again. Only because I hate getting my hose clogged up by little bits of hops. Also airates the wort with oxygen, for the yeast. If I was using pellets, I wouldn't bother.

 

[eltorrente]

It isn't worth any effort at all for pellet hops. Don't worry about them. They'll settle into the trub at the bottom of the fermenter, then you just syphon off the top of them. With leaf hops, I don't want them clogging up my tubing, so I'd filter them out - but then again, I haven't used leaf hops in the boil in many years anyway.

 

[KeyWestBrewing]

Whole leaf are the easiest to filter out for me.

 

[Math0]

Alright! I guess i will leave them into the fermenter and clear them out before secondary less trouble!

 

[eastoak]

Alright! I guess i will leave them into the fermenter and clear them out before secondary less trouble!

You can skip the secondary and save yourself even more trouble.

 

[bill72080]

Very helpful thread as I'm 40 min into my boil and trying to make this same decision!!!